DVD365.net | News Article | Escape From New York (1981)

Summary

In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him in John Carpenter's cyber-punk, action, suspense spectacular Escape From New York, released on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K UHD 26th November 2018 from StudioCanal.

Cast

Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes

Director

John Carpenter

Producer

Larry Franco, Debra Hill

Distributor

StudioCanal

Run time

1 hour 39 minutes

Release date

26/11/2018

Hash Tag

#EscapeFromNewYork

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Information

The year is 1997 and in a police state future the island of Manhattan has been turned into a maximum security prison. The rules are simple: once you're in, you don't come out.

But when the President of the United States (Donald Pleasence) crash lands an escape pod into the centre of the city after fleeing a hijacked plane, a ruthless prison warden (Lee Van Cleef) bribes ex-soldier and criminal Snake Plisskin into entering the hazardous Manhattan and rescuing the distraught president from the twisted world of New York and from the demented clutches of its new ruler The Duke (Isaac Hayes) in John Carpenter's cyber-punk, action, suspense spectacular.

Escape From New York is released on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K UHD 26th November 2018 from StudioCanal.

Special Features

DVD BLU-RAY

Audio Commentary with actor Kurt Russell & director John Carpenter Audio Commentary with Producer Debra Hill and production designer Joe Alves

Purgatory: Entering John Carpenter's ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK: A brand new feature-length documentary featuring interviews with Writer Nick Castle, cinematographer Dean Cundey, composer Alan Howarth, production designer Joe Alves, special visual effects artist/model maker Gene Rizzardi, production assistant David De Coteau, photographer Kim Gottleib-Walker, Carpenter biographer John Muir, visual effects historian Justin Humphreys, and music historian Daniel Schweiger
Snake Plissen: Man of Honor - featurette from 2005 featuring interviews with John Carpenter and Debra Hill
Intro by John Carpenter - an interview with director John Carpenter originally recorded for a French DVD release in 2003
Deleted Opening Sequence "Snake's Crime" with Optional Audio Commentary
Photo gallery incl. Behind the Scenes
Original Trailers
Audio Commentary with actor Kurt Russell & director John Carpenter
Audio Commentary with Producer Debra Hill and production designer Joe Alves
Big Challenges in Little Manhatten: Visual effects featurette - from 2015, features interviews with both Dennis Skotak, Director of Photography of Special VFX, and Robert Skotak, Unit Supervisor and Matte Artist
I am Taylor - Interview with actor Joe Unger - from 2015
Audio Commentary with actress Adrienne Barbeau & DOP Dean Cundey

None or TBC

Please note - Disc special features are subject to change, may differ from format to format and/or may differ from region to region.

Kurt Russell

Deepwater Horizon, Dark Blue, Fast & Furious 8, The Thing: Limited Edition, Deepwater Horizon, Bone Tomahawk, The Hateful Eight, Fast & Furious 7, The Art Of The Steal, Big Trouble in Little China, The Fox and The Hound, 3000 Miles to Graceland, Overboard, Soldier, Stargate: Director's Cut, The Thing, Backdraft, The Thing, John Carpenter's Escape From L.A.

Donald Pleasence

Phenomena, The Great Escape, Hell Is A City, From Beyond The Grave, You Only Live Live Twice, Death Line, Halloween, Danger Man: The Complete Collection, The Battle Of The Sexes, Prince of Darkness: Collector's Edition, Phenomena: Limited Edition

John Carpenter

The Thing: Limited Edition, Vampires: Dual Format, Assault on Precinct 13: 40th Anniversary Edition, Big Trouble in Little China, Halloween: 35th Anniversary, Dark Star, The Ward, Halloween, The Thing, They Live: Collector's Edition, Prince of Darkness: Collector's Edition, John Carpenter's Escape From L.A.

Isaac Hayes

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, South Park: Season 15, Kill Switch, Reindeer Games

Lee Van Cleef

Day of Anger, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Special Edition, The Big Gundown: Limited Edition

Ernest Borgnine

Convoy, Airwolf: Season 2

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