An ex–Special Forces soldier turned criminal, Snake Plissken is offered a simple deal: rescue the U.S. President, who has been taken hostage on Manhattan island (now a maximum-security prison), and all charges will be cleared. The leather-wearing, eye-patched badass has a name to match, one that telegraphs both slippery cunning and brute strength. Talk of an Escape from New York remake led original star Kurt Russell to balk — in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, he said, “I didn’t play Snake Plissken, I created him! I am Snake Plissken.”
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