The east river crossing is st louis chain of rocks bridge, spanning the mississippi river on the north edge of st louis to connect with chouteau island. He and production designer joe alves rejected shooting on location in new york city, because it would be too hard to make it look like a destroyed city. Escape from new york was carpenters response to watergate, a strippeddown tone poem of unblinking disillusionment wrapped in an exploitation package. Escape from new york remake story details revealed.
Escape from new york is a science fiction film set in a near future setting in which manhattan has become a prison. A remake of john carpenters 1981 cult classic scifi action film, escape from new york, has been in the works for many years. Escape from new york 1981 full movie download full hd. The snake plissken sequels well never get to see film school. No, theres no 69th street bridge in new york but even nonlocals would have realized that the very real 59th street bridge carries more than two lanes of traffic. John carpenter is a rarity among film directors in that he is also a composer who writes the musical scores for his movies. Kurt russell revisits escape from new york at ew capetown film festival entertainment weekly duration. This film spawned a sequel 15 years later, called escape from l. Escape from new york remake gets carpenter stamp of. Set in a futuristic 1997 new york city that has been turned into a massive prison, the film centers on protagonist and former solider turned criminal, snake plissken, played by.
A thrilling landmark film that jolts along at a breakneck pace, escape from new york leapt to cult status with highoctane action, edgeofyourseat suspense and a mindblowing vision of a lone. How many times have you settled in to watch john carpenters escape from new york and thought to yourself, this movie is pretty good, but i wish it didnt have so much escaping from jail. Isaac hayess 77 cadillac fleetwood sedan with the fendermounted chandeliers is the first art car in a feature film. Set in a near future when manhattan has been converted into a nomansland prison, the movie needed. If you already love the escape from new york film, this is a nobrainer. Escape from new york remake actor shortlist includes. Watch escape from new york full movie in hd visit movie 1103 in 1997, the island of manhattan has been walled off and turned. The escape from new york remake will also be genderswapping the role of hauk, originally played by lee van cleef. Twentieth century fox has obtained the rights to john carpenters 1981 cultclassic escape from new york and intends to remake the film. John carpenters 1981 cult classic, escape from new york, was one of the many scifi action films that populated 1980s. Its the films incessant action, along with its high imagination, that will spell out the. The film s setting proved to be a potential problem for john carpenter, who needed to create a decaying, semidestroyed version of new york city on only a shoestring budget. But if efny is new to you, writer christopher sebela has been garnering high praise for his recent boom.
In a police state future the island of manhattan has been turned into a maximum security prison. Escape from new york reboot details reportedly revealed. It was just the work itself, the nature of the business, that made life so hard. It was one of the rash of great 1980s films that depicted a future that wasnt so shiny and chrome. Escape from new york was shot using panavision panaflex gold cameras on 35mm film. Parents need to know escape from new york presents a bleak vision of the future and has violence including that violence gunfire, crossbows, thrown knives, land mines, and gladiatorial death bouts with fists and clubs though except for a severed head theres little explicit gore.
On march, 2007, it was announced that gerard butler would play the role of snake plissken in a remake of escape from new york. Although most of the film was not shot in new york, the only sequence that did get the authentic treatment was when the helicopter flies by the statue of liberty and the film establishes itself in new york, and the island established itself as the headquarters for the prison. Released mere months after the conclusion of the iran hostage crisis, the story of. John carpenters 1981 hit scifi action film, escape from new york, has proved to be less than prophetic.
Everything you never knew about the making of escape. Its the film s incessant action, along with its high imagination, that will spell out the success of escape from new york. This 2018 release was made using the original camera negative which was scanned at 4k resolution, in 16bit, with the application of aces academy color encoding system to the restoration process which resulted in the creation of a 4k dcp digital cinema package utilised for the creation of this ultra hd blu. Escape from new york is een film uit 1981 onder regie van john carpenter. However, the film has been stuck in early development with different directors signing on to helm the movie, then backing out, while many actors were rumored to revive the role of snake plissken originally portrayed by kurt russell, including. With kurt russell, lee van cleef, ernest borgnine, donald pleasence. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or instore pickup. Robert rodriguez to direct escape from new york deadline. Cadillac fleetwood brougham in escape from new york. The film also marked the second collaboration between carpenter and thenwife, adrienne barbeau, who made her theatrical debut the previous year in. The new escape from new york is in good hands, but the original saga will always be associated with unfinished business. Twitter on july 10, 1981, john carpenter unveiled his rrated.
Escape from new york is a 1981 american science fiction action film cowritten, coscored and. Snake plissken is a convict and war hero whos sent into a futuristic manhattan which has been turned into a giant maximum security prison to. Escape from new york 1981 saw kurt russell star as snake plissken still one of the best character names ever, a oneeyed dreamboat trying to rescue the president from new york. Kurt russell snake plissken teams up with john carpenter once again to tell this intriguing tale of fighting fire with fire by sending a ruthless killer into a penal colony manhattan island to rescue the president. A thrilling landmark film that jolts along at a breakneck pace, escape from new york leapt to cult status with highoctane action, edgeofyourseat suspense and the mindblowing vision of lone. If snake hasnt done his job by then, his head will explode. Due to huge crime rates, the united states turns its once great city of new york into a maximum security prison where hardcore criminals are put for life.
Halloween 1978 was a runaway horror smash, but escape from new york was the sleeper action movie that kicked him into the hollywood big leagues for a strong run through the rest of the 80s. We print the highest quality escape from new york tshirts on the internet. Escape from new york 1981 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. It was a lowbudget movie back in 1981, and the production values certainly dont hold up very well, even by 1981 standards. In 2015 it was announced that studiocanal sold the rights to escape from new york 1981 to fox, which emerged from competitive bidding and closed a deal to remake the john carpenterdirected cult classic. He did not agree with the film s philosophy but liked how it conveyed the sense of new york as a kind of jungle, and i wanted to make a science fiction film along these lines. Featuring an atmospherically grimy futuristic metropolis, escape from new york is a strange, entertaining jumble of.
Escape from new york 1981 is squeezed tightly into the middle of john carpenters career hot streak, when he was releasing at least one film a year. Escape from new york limited edition steelbook bluray. How did escape from new york become one of the greatest cult movies of all time. Their hope is to reinvent the property with an eye toward launching a. I think carpenter is a masterful director, but escape from new york felt kind of like a cheap side project for him. Escape from new york stylized onscreen as john carpenters escape from new york is a 1981 american science fiction action film cowritten, coscored and directed by john carpenter. New information not only reveals details on the escape from new york remake, but also indicate that it may be more of an escape from new york prequel. Robert rodriguez is getting the gig to direct escape from new york, the remake of john carpenters iconic 1981 film thats set up at 20th century fox. Last week we reported that new line cinema had won rights to remake escape from new york with 300 star gerard butler attached to star. It stars kurt russell, lee van cleef, donald pleasence, ernest borgnine, isaac hayes, adrienne barbeau, and harry dean stanton the film s storyline, set in the nearfuture world of 1997, concerns a crimeridden. An escape from new york remake has been drifting through the winds of filmdom for about eight years now.
It was sheer luck that this film even got made and a similar amount of luck was involved in kurt russell. Struck from a highdefinition master, the new effort does improve notice my use of the word improve, as opposed to correct a lot of the wrongs of the previous dvd. Escape from new york reunited a number of key players from carpenters halloween 1978, see entry, including producers debra hill and larry franco, actor donald pleasence, and writer castle. A thrilling landmark film that jolts along at a breakneck pace, escape from new york leapt to cult status with highoctane action, edgeofyourseat suspense and a mindblowing vision of a lone warrior kurt russell battling his way out of a postapocalyptic manhattan. Donotdothisathome stuff includes whiskey used as a firebomb. Snake plissken from john carpenters classic 1980s film escape from new york tags.
Escape from new york remake will be very different from. Preproduction see complete list of inproduction titles. Featuring an atmospherically grimy futuristic metropolis, escape from new york is a strange, entertaining jumble of thrilling action and oddball weirdness. I saw this car parked in front of new york,new york disco on west 52nd street in 1977 it looked like a horror show. Its been several years since i last sat down and watched escape from new york from beginning to end, and while my love of the movie remains, i also have to confess its not a film that has aged well. Gremlins, tropic thunder, boogie nights, and more certified fresh films and tv on netflix. Carpenters 1981 film escape from new york was a kind of genre hybrid, a science fiction crime thriller with suggestions of a spaghetti western thrown in. Although present in the shooting script for escape from new york, bob was not used in the completed film. Escape from new york is set in the near future and was a genre defining film that spawned many knock offs as a direct result. I was at a great new york company with progressive familyfriendly policies.
The character will instead become cia deputy executive director roberta hauk, who. Original motion picture soundtrack is a soundtrack album composed and performed by john carpenter, featuring the score to the 1981 film escape from new york. Shop escape from new york tshirts created by independent artists from around the globe. John carpenter talks about escape from new york then and.
Escape from new york has one of the most ingenious premises of any film released during the. Though, i will say carpenters original score made for this film is brilliant. Well, youre in luck, because according to the wrap, luther creator neal cross take on the 1981 cult classic wont feature new york city as a maximum security prison, but rather as a. No doubt, foxs success with the current apes series has the studio thinking it can aim for. Escape from new york original film soundtrack john. Carpenter has said he was inspired by death wishs portrayal of new york as a jungle, if not by that film s politics, and he delivered an. Despite its modern appearance, the dam was completed in 1941 to hold back. Before escape from new york and the thing 1982, kurt russell was best known for doing disney comedies and other lightweight fare. Released in 1981, escape from new york is a cultclassic action film featuring the dream team of director john carpenter and star kurt russell. Escape from new york takes place over a 24hour period from october 2324, 1997. A thrilling landmark film that jolts along at a breakneck pace, escape from new york leapt to cult status with highoctane action, edgeofyourseat suspense and the mindblowing vision of lone warrior snake plissken kurt russell battling his way out of a postapocalyptic manhattan. All the bridges leading into the city are mined, a large wall is built along the shoreline and a large police force army is based there to stop.
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