Meanwhile, former Special Forces soldier Snake Plissken is about to be sent into Manhattan after being convicted of robbing the Federal Reserve. Romero, the right-hand man of the Duke of New York, a powerful crime boss, warns them that the President has been captured and will be killed if any further rescue attempts are made. Police are dispatched to rescue the President. The President is handcuffed with a briefcase and put into an escape pod that drops into Manhattan as the aircraft crashes. In 1997, while flying President John Harker to a peace summit in Hartford, Air Force One is hijacked by a terrorist. The island is walled off from the outside world and under heavy police surveillance. In a dystopian 1988, amidst war against an alliance of China and the Soviet Union, the United States government has turned Manhattan into a maximum security prison to address a 400% increase in crime. (1996), which was also directed and written by Carpenter and starred Russell.

The film became a cult classic and was followed by a sequel, Escape from L.A. The film was nominated for four Saturn Awards, including Best Science Fiction Film and Best Direction. Released in the United States on July 10, 1981, the film received positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success, grossing more than $25.2 million at the box office. The film was co-written by Nick Castle, who had collaborated with Carpenter by portraying Michael Myers in Halloween. Louis, Missouri, on an estimated budget of $6 million. After the success of Halloween (1978), he had enough influence to begin production and filmed it mainly in St. Ex-soldier and current federal prisoner Snake Plissken (Russell) is given just 24 hours to go in and rescue the President of the United States, after which, if successful, he will be pardoned.Ĭarpenter wrote the film in the mid-1970s in reaction to the Watergate scandal. Air Force One is hijacked by anti-government insurgents who deliberately crash it into the walled borough. The film's storyline, set in the near-future world of 1997, concerns a crime-ridden United States, which has converted Manhattan Island in New York City into the country's sole maximum security prison. Escape from New York is a 1981 American science fiction action film co-written, co-scored and directed by John Carpenter, and starring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Barbeau and Harry Dean Stanton.

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