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Once upon a time the world came close to satiating its thirst for more of the Escape from New York/L.A.lead badass Snake Plissken. Turns out development had gotten pretty far for the character’s transmedia presence as both an anime series and a video game.
Despite great effort from the films’ director John Carpenter, the late producer Debra Hill, and flesh and blood avatar Kurt Russell, these projects remain detained in pre-production island's penitentiary.
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Concept design for the anime series looked pretty cool even displaying a few new and interesting characters in the prison nation of the Carpenter universe. As for the game, the gameplay released for viewing eyes looks badass for something that might have come out on PS2. Actually it kind of reminds me of The Punisher video game meeting The Warriors video game, which, oddly, makes sense if video games could actually copulate... Depending on your preference it could be The Punisher video game mating with Lara Croft's?
But such is the way of the snakebit, anti-hero. Plissken’s always getting reeled into doing somebody else’s dirty work, surviving most of the way through with a provocative trail of explosions, bodies behind him, until some bureaucratic tormentor or worse yet the President of the United States shrugs him off without so much as an apathetic apology. “Welcome to the real world,” says Snake.
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Is the sad fact that the cult following wasn’t quite strong enough in the early 2000’s? One Supposes a post 9/11 era when cynicism and imagery of post-apocalyptic U.S. of F’n A. (especially one where Manhattan is a prison) was probably considered un-American or at the very least insensitive. And Snake was indeed that in most of his endeavors.
It was a time when hipster irony wasn’t enough or didn’t fit the truly uncompromising audacity of this character and it’s world. John Carpenter and Nick Castle created an action hero of honest, un-self-reflexive gonads. They were as serious about it as Snake himself; Kurt Russell knew this and embodied it.
Web heat is rising around these projects and it makes one think that it’s going to break out. Hey, maybe we can cut a deal Snake. You were a damn war hero, you saved 2 presidents. We could use a man like you in a video game? An anime series? Let’s make a deal. What do ya say Snake?
“Call me Plissken.”
For more of the designs from the Snake anime and video game, check it out here.
[via Aint it Cool News]