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.

" Snake " Plissken ( Kurt Russell ) is escorted to the prison on Manhattan Island by armed officers.

* 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 ".

Large scale settlement ensued and in a decade there appeared roads, bridges, dams and irrigation canals that brought most of the Upper Snake River Valley under cultivation.

Wei Pai, who played the Snake ( referred to as " Number Two " throughout the film " Five Deadly Venoms ") was also part of the Venom Mob which numbered over 15 actors which appeared in almost all of the Venom movies.

Created by writer Chuck Dixon and artist Tom Lyle, King Snake first appeared in Robin # 2 ( 1991 ).

Wardle also appeared on the LP Snake Charmer billed as a co-leader alongside guitarist The Edge of U2, Czukay, Liebezeit, and producer François Kevorkian.

The Blue Racer first appeared in " Snake in the Gracias " before getting his own series in 1972.

In addition to Wattstax and Truck Turner, Pitts appeared in the award-winning Forty Shades of Blue, Craig Brewer's Black Snake Moan, and Soul Men featuring Bernie Mac and Samuel L. Jackson, for which he also contributed three songs to its soundtrack.

During that time he also appeared on MacGowan's solo album The Snake and The Levellers ' self titled release ; he continued working as a musician and composer after leaving The Pogues.

Moore appeared in other series too, including a role in the 1952 episode " Snake River Trapper " of Bill Williams's syndicated western, The Adventures of Kit Carson.

*" Here Comes the Snake ", the only Kids on the Street track which appeared on the Daddies ' Zoot Suit Riot compilation, was re-recorded and released as a single in 1998, featuring a faster tempo, additional trumpet and a more prominent theremin.

His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, LA Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, Screw, Fortune, The Independent on Sunday, Libération, Nickelodeon Magazine, The Believer, and Heavy Metal, as well as in comics anthologies such as Hotwire, Snake Eyes, Zero Zero, Hyena, Hodags and Hodaddies, Blood Orange, Rosetta, 106U, and Legal Action Comics.

The episode " A New Start " was edited in such a way that it appeared Erica was never pregnant by the end of the episode, abruptly ending after a joke between Wheels, Joey and Snake, although the scene of Erica reading her pregnancy test was kept as a still over the credits.

* Snake ( first appeared in # 1, Volume one )

In 1993, she appeared as the White Snake in Tsui Hark's Green Snake, a revision of the Madame White Snake legend told from the perspective of the younger Green Snake, though White Snake remains the romantic lead.

Snake Eyes first appeared in G. I.

In the first miniseries, Snake Eyes appeared in his " V1 " uniform, but for all of his later appearances he wore a bluish-grey version of his " V2 " uniform.

Snake Eyes appeared in the Sigma 6 comic, released by Devil's Due Publishing with direct connection to the related animated series.

Together they appeared in many live radio productions, including the long-running " Dad and Dave from Snake Gully " series in which Edwards played Dad Rudd ( and many other roles ), and Stirling played Mabel ( Dave's wife ).

Sebastian Bach appeared on VH1 That Metal Show and revealed that although Doc Mcghee did initiate a conversation between him & Dave " The Snake " Sabo, and it was discussed that a box set should be made for the fans, the plans fizzled out when post this conversation, Snake announced at a show that no reunion with Bach would happen.

It includes the mainstem Columbia below the Snake River and tributaries such as the Salmon, John Day, Deschutes, and lower Snake Rivers.

Director John Carpenter decided to add the original scenes into the special edition release as an extra only: " After we screened the rough cut, we realized that the movie didn't really start until Snake got to New York.

John Carpenter's Escape from New York ( 1981 ) influenced the novel ; Gibson was " intrigued by the exchange in one of the opening scenes where the Warden says to Snake ' You flew the Gulfire over Leningrad, didn't you?

Other films scored by Sakamoto include Pedro Almodóvar's Tacones lejanos ( High Heels ) ( 1991 ), Bertolucci's The Little Buddha ( 1993 ), Oliver Stone's Wild Palms ( 1993 ), John Maybury's Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon ( 1998 ), Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes ( 1998 ) and Femme Fatale ( 2002 ), Oshima's Gohatto ( 1999 ), and Kiran Rao's Dhobi Ghat ( 2011 ).

This works to the players advantage, as it can be used to send up barrels of nuclear waste, which destroys the space ship, taking Homer Simpson's ' 70's Sports Car ', Snake and Bandit, John Frink and the Hover Car

Multiple ferries were established on the Missouri River, Kansas River, Little Blue River, Elkhorn River, Loup River, Platte River, South Platte River, North Platte River, Laramie River, Green River, Bear River, two crossings of the Snake River, John Day River, Deschutes River, Columbia River, as well as many other smaller streams.

However, both John Rees and Vardis Fisher believed it was named for the Snake River canyon which forms a natural boundary for the county with Owyhee County.

Top bands from the last 40 years have played there, both those of international origin ( Prince, Aimee Mann, Uriah Heep, King Crimson, Cradle of Filth, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Jethro Tull, The Moody Blues, MGMT, Nas ) and from Denmark ( D. A. D, Dodo and the Dodos, Johnny Deluxe, Big Fat Snake ).

About two weeks before the marriage, John Molson Sr. inherited a property known as Snake Hall, in Lincolnshire, which consisted of a home and various outbuildings associated with of land.

Under their marriage settlement, Snake Hall went to Mary, and was to then pass on to his eldest son, John, upon her death.

* John Godey, The Snake

U. S. Army Major John Butler was responsible for the upper Columbia River and Snake River and in 1932, his 1, 000-page report was submitted to Congress.

* Snake River Land Company, founded by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. in 1927

The range is drained by several rivers, including the Grand Ronde and Tucannon, tributaries of the Snake, as well as the forks of the John Day, Umatilla and Walla Walla rivers, tributaries of the Columbia.

Snake Plissken appears in John Carpenter's Snake Plissken Chronicles, a four-part comic book miniseries released in 2003 that was published by CrossGen comics.

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.

Cover of John Carpenter's Snake Plissken Chronicles.