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Escape from L.A. movie storyline. The year is 2013. Like New York, Los Angeles has been turned into a prison island for the United State’s most undesirable criminals, like New York, Los Angeles is surrounded by a wall so no convict can escape from L.A and once deported to L.A. you can never return to the American mainland which has become a moral society.
16-years after he escaped from New York, One-Eyed former soldier Snake Plissken now the United State’s most wanted outlaw is once again given another job for his freedom by the new President and L.A’s security commander Malloy. Snake is sent into L.A. to recover a doomsday device that shuts all power sources on Earth from brutal terrorist Curevo Jones and the President’s runaway daughter Utopia who has been brainwashed by Curveo into stealing the doomsday device, and the President personally wants Snake to eliminate Utopia for betraying her country.
Like New York, Snake is injected with a engineered virus which will kill him in 9 hours if Snake fails the mission, if Snake succeeds in completing the mission, he will be given the antidote. Entering L.A, now inhabited by criminals, runaway teenagers, prostitutes and brutal gangs. Snake sets out to recover the doomsday device and kill Utopia, as Curevo and his army of terrorists prepares to invade the United States and can Snake escape from L.A. before the virus kills him in 9 hours?
Escape from L.A. (also known as John Carpenter’s Escape from L.A. or Escape from Los Angeles) is a 1996 American science fiction action film co-written, co-scored, and directed by John Carpenter, co-written and produced by Debra Hill and Kurt Russell, with Russell also starring as Snake Plissken. A sequel to Escape from New York, Escape from L.A. co-stars Steve Buscemi, Stacy Keach, Bruce Campbell, and Pam Grier.
Escape from L.A. grossed $25,477,365 from its $50 million budget—about as much as its predecessor, but little more than half its significantly higher budget.
The film was in development for over ten years with a script commissioned in 1987, written by screenwriter Coleman Luck. Carpenter would later describe the script as “too light, too campy”. The project remained dormant following that time until the 1994 earthquake and the L.A. riots revived it. Carpenter and Kurt Russell got together to write with their long-time collaborator Debra Hill. 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”.
Escape from L.A. (1996)
Directed by: John Carpenter
Starring: Kurt Russell, Stacy Keach, Steve Buscemi, Peter Fonda, Georges Corraface, Cliff Robertson, Valeria Golino, Pam Grier, Michelle Forbes, Ina Romeo
Screenplay by: John Carpenter, Debra Hill, Kurt Russell
Production Design by: Lawrence G. Paull
Cinematography by: Gary B. Kibbe
Film Editing by: Edward A. Warschilka
Costume Design by: Robin Michel Bush
Set Decoration by: Kathe Klopp
Art Direction by: Bruce Crone
Music by: John Carpenter, Shirley Walker
MPAA Rating: R for violence and some language.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: August 9, 1996
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