The player will encounter corpses of famous characters such as Luke Skywalker, Indiana Jones, Snake Plissken, the protagonist of Doom, and a smashed T-800.

Ex-soldier Snake Plissken ( Kurt Russell ) is given 24 hours to find the President of the United States, who has been captured after the crash of Air Force One.

Police Commissioner Bob Hauk ( Lee Van Cleef ) offers a deal to special forces soldier turned criminal " Snake " Plissken ( Kurt Russell ): If he rescues the president and retrieves a secret cassette tape within 24 hours, Hauk will give him a full pardon.

* Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken

Avco-Embassy Pictures, the film's financial backer, preferred either Charles Bronson or Tommy Lee Jones to play the role of Snake Plissken to Carpenter's choice of Kurt Russell, who was trying to overcome the " lightweight " screen image conveyed by his roles in several Disney comedies.

The character Solid Snake is strongly based on Snake Plissken.

Empire magazine ranked Snake Plissken # 71 in their " The 100 Greatest Movie Characters " poll.

Another version is the Collector's Edition, a two-disc set featuring a remastered transfer with a 5. 1 audio track, two commentaries ( one by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell, another by producer Debra Hill and Joe Alves ), a making-of featurette, the first issue of a comic book series titled John Carpenter's Snake Plissken Chronicles, and a ten-minute deleted opening sequence.

The excised scenes feature Snake Plissken robbing a bank, introducing the character of Plissken and establishing a backstory.

Scottish actor Gerard Butler was close to signing a deal where he would play Snake Plissken in a remake of Carpenter's movie.

" Russell has commented on the remake and on the casting of Butler as Plissken, saying, " I will say that when I was told who was going to play Snake Plissken, my initial reaction was ' Oh, man!

In November 2010, reports cited Jeremy Renner as being in talks to play Snake Plissken.

Category: Snake Plissken Chronicles

Some movies feature characters wearing eyepatches, such as Elle Driver from Kill Bill, and Snake Plissken from Escape from New York and Escape from L. A ..

* Snake Plissken from Escape from New York and Escape from L. A.

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Escape from L. A. ( also known as John Carpenter's Escape From L. A .) is a 1996 action film co-written and directed by John Carpenter and produced and co-written by Kurt Russell, who also stars as Snake Plissken.

Snake Plissken is captured for another series of crimes and is scheduled to be exiled to the island.

* Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken

Carpenter insists that it was Russell's persistence that allowed the film to be made, since " Snake Plissken was a character he loved and wanted to play again ".

Bob " Snake " Plissken is a fictional character in John Carpenter's films Escape from New York and Escape from L. A., played by Kurt Russell.

In the early 2000s, John Carpenter, Kurt Russell, and Debra Hill developed a proposed Snake Plissken television series that was ultimately turned down by all the major networks for being " too dark and bleak.

* Escape from New York ( Japan Television ) ( Snake Plissken ( Kurt Russell ))

She worked with John Carpenter and actor Kurt Russell on a comic adaptation of the Snake Plissken character as well as a proposed Snake Plissken video game.

Russell has also stated that out of all the characters he has done in his career, Snake Plissken is his favorite.

On August 22, 1842, while in the Snake River valley, he and Osborne Russell joined a wagon train led by the missionary Dr Elijah White headed the Willamette Valley.

He is depicted with long hair and an eye patch à la his portrayal of " Snake " Plissken in the films Escape from New York and Escape from L. A. Joe and Monkey's relationship to Russell is unknown, as is why an actor is fighting a robot, or for that matter, why a delivery boy and a monkey are fighting a robot.

The Upper Snake ecoregion is defined as the Snake River watershed above Shoshone Falls, which totally blocks fish migration.

The Snake is by far the largest tributary.

Compared to the Columbia above the confluence, the Snake is longer ( 113 %), and its drainage basin is larger ( 104 %).

Snake finds the President in a railroad car, but he is captured by the Duke's men.

While Snake is forced to fight with a prisoner named Slag ( Ox Baker ), Brain and Maggie trick the Duke's men into letting them see the President.

Snake is lifted to safety, and the explosives are deactivated with seconds to spare.

" All that matters to Snake, according to the actor, is " the next 60 seconds.

New Line Cinema ( one-time video distributor of the original ) acquired the rights to the film from co-rights holder StudioCanal, who will control the European rights, and Carpenter, who will serve as an executive producer and said, " Snake is one of my fondest creations.

In canoes, they descended the mountains by the Clearwater River, the Snake River, and the Columbia River, past Celilo Falls and past what is now Portland, Oregon at the meeting of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers.

While a hike up the Snake Path on the eastern side of the mountain ( access via the Dead Sea Highway ) is considered part of the " Masada experience ," a cable car operates at the site for those who wish to avoid the physical exertion.

The more common theory is that the name originated in the Western regions of the United States, and is derived from a topical preparation made from the Chinese Water Snake ( Enhydris chinensis ) used by Chinese laborers to treat joint pain.

* Flåklypa Grand Prix: In this animated movie, Snake Oil is used as a name for a shady oil company.

Snake venom is produced by glands below the eye ( the mandibular gland ) and delivered to the victim through tubular or channeled fangs.

*** Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake ( 1990 ) is set on December 24, 1999.

Lewiston is located at the confluence of the Snake River and Clearwater River, thirty miles ( 48 km ) northwest of the Lower Granite Dam.

Because of dams ( and their locks ) on the Snake and Columbia River, Lewiston is reachable by some ocean-going vessels.

Lewiston is located at the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater Rivers.