As Utopia is taken to the electric chair, Snake learns that the virus infecting him only causes a severe case of influenza that subsides within hours. Hershe and her men are incinerated, Eddie jumps clear at liftoff, and Snake and Utopia do the same over the mainland and leave the helicopter to crash once Snake alerts the president to their approach.Īt the crash site, the president and his officers find that both Snake and Utopia are carrying remotes and take the one held by Utopia (slipped into her pocket without her noticing), incorrectly thinking that Snake has switched them. Eddie shoots Cuervo, who fires a rocket launcher and hits the helicopter before dying. Snake, Eddie, Utopia, Hershe, and a group of Hershe's soldiers escape the island in a helicopter. During a fight against Cuervo's troops, Snake takes the remote and Eddie alters one of the units he sells for his tours to match it. The group travels by glider to the invasion staging area, at the ' Happy Kingdom' in Anaheim. Snake escapes, and teams up with Hershe and her soldiers. Cuervo threatens to inflict the same fate on the rest of the U.S. Along the way, Snake is helped by Pipeline, a surfing enthusiast Taslima, a woman deported for her Muslim faith and Hershe Las Palmas (formerly Carjack Malone), a trans woman and past criminal associate of Snake's.Įddie captures Snake and turns him over to Cuervo, who uses the Sword of Damocles to shut down Lynchburg in retaliation for Snake's presence. As he explores the island, he meets 'Map to the Stars' Eddie, a swindler who sells interactive tours and one of Cuervo's associates. Snake is issued equipment and sent to Los Angeles in a one-man submarine. The president is not concerned with Utopia's safety, regarding her as a traitor. To force his compliance, the president has one of his officers infect Snake with a virus that will kill him within 10 hours and promises that he will receive the cure upon completing the mission. Cuervo has marshaled an invasion force of third world nations and is planning to attack the U.S.įacing deportation for a series of crimes, Snake Plissken is offered a chance to earn a pardon by traveling to the island and recovering the remote, a task that a previous rescue team failed to accomplish.

His daughter Utopia steals the remote control for the system and escapes to Los Angeles Island in order to deliver it to Cuervo Jones, a Peruvian Shining Path revolutionary. The president intends to use it to dominate the world by destroying hostile nations' ability to function. has developed a superweapon known as the ' Sword of Damocles,' a satellite system capable of targeting electronic devices anywhere in the world and rendering them useless. Escape from the island is made impossible due to a containment wall erected along the mainland shore and a heavy federal police presence monitoring the area.īy 2013, the U.S. citizenship and permanent deportation to the new Los Angeles Island, or repentance and death by electrocution. Violators are given a choice between loss of U.S. to his hometown of Lynchburg, Virginia and enacts a series of strict morality laws, banning such things as smoking, alcohol, drugs, premarital sex, firearms, profanity, and red meat. He orders the United States capital relocated from Washington, D.C. Declaring that God is punishing Los Angeles for its sins, a theocratic presidential candidate wins election to a lifetime term of office. In 2000, a massive earthquake strikes the city of Los Angeles, cutting it off from the mainland as the San Fernando Valley floods. The film later found a strong cult following. failed to meet the studio's expectations at the box office and received polarized reactions from critics. co-stars Steve Buscemi, Stacy Keach, Bruce Campbell, Peter Fonda, and Pam Grier. A sequel to Escape from New York (1981), Escape from L.A. (stylized on-screen as John Carpenter's Escape from L.A.) is a 1996 American post-apocalyptic action film co-written, co-scored, and directed by John Carpenter, co-written and produced by Debra Hill and Kurt Russell, with Russell also starring as Snake Plissken.

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