Escape from L.A.

• Kurt Russell: Snake Plissken
• Stacy Keach: Malloy
• Steve Buscemi: Eddie
• Peter Fonda: Pipeline
• George Corraface: Cuervo Jones
• Cliff Robertson: President of the United States
• Pam Grier: Hershey
• Michelle Forbes: Brazen
• Valeria Golino: Taslima
• Peter Jason: on-duty officer
• Bruce Campbell: Surgeon General of Beverly Hills
• Breckin Meyer: Surfer
• Robert Carradine: skinhead
• Leland Orser: Test Tube
• Isaac Hayes: Guard at Basketball Court

Escape from LA is the 1996 released movie sequel Escape from the year 1981. He is from a few exceptions, for the same storylines and events as its predecessor, which is why he is often referred to as a remake. Kurt Russell plays again the lead role. The film opened on 31 October 1996 in West German cinemas.

Action

The Outlaw Snake Plissken is once again faced with the choice either to accept a dangerous assignment or painful to die within a few hours of an injected virus. He opts for the former, swears those responsible but bitter revenge.

So he sets out to LA to the island, which is used after an earthquake in isolation from the fascist -ruled United States as a ghetto and prison for undesirables and criminals.

The goal is to return a device which could mean the end of civilization in the wrong hands. This equipment has been stolen by the daughter of the president and her lover, a guerrilla leader handed out.

Snake Plissken returns a duplicate of the device and the virus turns out to be a bluff, which is harmless, but should keep him docile.

When the president's daughter is to be executed, he used the original and raises the human civilization back to the Stone Age.

Background

• The actor Donald Pleasence and Lee van Cleef, who played Escape from the President or the Police Commissioner Bob Hauk in the first film, had already died before the making of the film.

• The song for the film was The One by White Zombie. The song did not appear on the soundtrack to the film.

Reviews

" Unmistakable parodic elements are suffocated between costly externalities and stereotyped action patterns. A film that is the Fantastik his design only momentary as justice. "

" Actor and producer Kurt Russell was the driving force behind the remake of the genre 's classic, The Rattlesnake ' of 1981. A nearly identical story, only about $ 43 million more expensive than the original. Unfortunately rushes director John Carpenter his great team (among Stacy Keach, Pam Grier, Steve Buscemi ) time only headless through the urban jungle. "

Soundtrack

The soundtrack to the film was titled Escape from LA. He was re- produced by John Carpenter, this time using Shirley Walker. More than a remake to the original film music but it was not, which was another minus point for the critics. The soundtrack was released simultaneously with the film at the Atlantic label. In 2006, the soundtrack was published under the same title as a remake.

Awards

Michel Robin Bush for the costumes and the film for Best SF film were nominated in 1997 for the Saturn Award.