![]() ![]() It was a world that I left behind, but he rekindled it, and he rekindled my own love for it. What do you think he brought with his increased involvement that wasn’t already on the table with the first one?Ĭarpenter: It was his passion for the character and his love for the world we had created. Thompson: Kurt was very keen to make this was very involved in it. Thompson: Where would you spend that? Would that have been on effects? Even though we had a bigger budget than Escape from New York, we didn’t have a big enough of a budget. Was there anything you wanted to try and realize that didn’t happen?Ĭarpenter: Well, several things didn’t happen the way I’d have liked them to. Thompson: I often ask directors about things they wanted to do in a movie, but it wasn’t possible either because of budgetary or time constraints or because the technology wasn’t available. Thompson: Is there anything that springs to mind that you would have liked to have included? Do you have any of that footage anywhere in the archives? Are you an archivist? Thompson: Was there a lot of stuff that you shot and didn’t make it?Ĭarpenter: There was some stuff, yeah, but not a lot. They loved the hang gliding, which I hoped they would. Thompson: What stood out quite early on when it came to things that audiences engaged with? Did it match up with your expectations?Ĭarpenter: Everybody loved the surfing, which I thought they would. ![]() It probably should have been cut down a little.Ī hang gliding Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken in a scene from 'Escape from L.A.' Paramount Pictures We had a length problem with Escape from L.A., and we never solved that. We’d sit and watch it with them and see what they would pick up on. How and when did you find out if it was working for audiences at the time? Were they seeing what you wanted them to see in it?Ĭarpenter: We only had test screenings with audiences. Thompson: Now we have social media to gauge how audiences react to a movie instantly. I just thought, ‘Whatever it does, it does.’ I don’t remember what Escape from New York opened with, but this one opened around the same figure, so that was fine. In a sense, they were okay because it was commensurate with the first one. I just remember getting calls about the numbers from Sherry Lansing at the studio. What do you remember about the opening weekend of Escape from L.A.? Did you go into any theaters and watch it with an audience?Ĭarpenter: No, I didn’t do that. I’m done with that movie, and I don’t want to revisit it. Like New York, Los Angeles is now a decaying city, a hot-bed of scum and weirdos and Snake has 9 hours to find the device and Utopia, and get out before the poison kicks in.Carpenter: He’s a perfectionist, and I’m not. ![]() Snake Plissken, hero of Escape From New York, is forced again to go to the island to get the device by the President (who doesn't care if Utopia returns or not.) and he is poisoned to ensure his co-operation. In 2013, Cuervo Jones, a terrorist invades the dreams of the President's daughter, Utopia, and brainwashes her into stealing a device from a weapons establishment and runs with Cuervo to the island. Like New York, a wall is built, guards posted to stop any escapes and if sent there - you can't return to the US. In that year the new life-term US President, an out-spoken moralist declares that all people not conforming to the high morals he sets for the country will be deported to the Los Angeles island. In 2000, a huge earthquake hits Los Angeles which causes the whole city to be now situated on an island. ![]()
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