![]() ![]() It took 15 years but Escape From LA was finally released in 1996. ![]() Sequel Gap: The first movie Escape from New York was released in 1981.Snake Plissken was his favorite character, a character he loved, and wanted to play again. It was Russell's persistence that got the film made. It remained dormant until Carpenter and Kurt Russell got together with frequent collaborator Debra Hill. A script was first commissioned in 1985, but John Carpenter thought it was "too light, too campy". Saved from Development Hell: The film was caught in development hell for over ten years.Refitted for Sequel: Snake finding out that the charges in him were duds was an idea meant for the first film.Recycled Set: This Happy Kingdom set was actually the town square from Back to the Future at Universal.Recycled Script: This is basically a wholesale rehash of the first film, so much so that you could practically take the script of the latter, change the names of people and locations without touching any of the rest of the script, and you'd almost have the former.Real-Life Relative: One of the orphans seen early on in the film is, in fact, Kurt Russell's own son, Wyatt Russell.One for the Money One for the Art: Steve Buscemi took part in this film to help fund his directorial debut, Trees Lounge.Brazen where they discuss Snake's psychological profile is nowhere to be seen in the finished film, but did appear in the original trailer. A conversation between Commander Malloy and Lt.A subsequent scene with Utopia realizing that Cuervo isn't as heroic as she thought him to be, as well as the Mescalitos pulling Snake to his feet and hauling him out (in an apparent homage to the original film) was shot according to actor William Luduena, but never included proper in the film. It was featured prominently in behind-the-scenes materials and promotional trailers, but was not included in the final product. Memorial Coliseum that would have set up the ending (Cuervo remarks that the Sword of Damocles can be used to disable the whole world's defenses, along with giving more backstory for "Test Tube" (the hacker working for Cuervo) and setting up the gang member who steals Snake's jacket. There was intended to ba a much longer conversation between Snake and Cuervo Jones in the basement of the L.A.The sequence was shot, but has never been released. According to production assistant Mauritz Pavoni, there was intended to be a scene where Snake encountered a hooker when he arrived at Hollywood Boulevard.It did appear in pre-release promotional footage, however. There was intended to be a scene where Snake would be caught in a mudslide and pulled down to the bottom of a hill soon after he arrived on the island that isn't present in the final film.The conversation appeared in the trailer but wasn't present in the final product. A conversation between Malloy, Brazen and the President where they discuss Snake's psychological history.Deleted Scene: Several scenes were shot but only appeared in the marketing campaign or revealed to have been shot by crew members, including:.Channel Hop: The first film was from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and StudioCanal, but this sequel is from Paramount. ![]()
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