Directing team Radio Silence will be tackling John Carpenter and Kurt Russell's 1981 dystopian classic
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Cast
Kurt Russell (Snake Plissken)Lee Van Cleef (Hauk)Ernest Borgnine (Cabbie)Donald Pleasence (President)Isaac Hayes (The Duke)Season Hubley (Girl in Chock Full O'Nuts)Harry Dean Stanton (Harold 'Brain' Hellman)Adrienne Barbeau (Maggie)Tom Atkins (Rehme)Charles Cyphers (Secretary of State)Joe Unger (Taylor)Frank Doubleday (Romero)John Strobel (Cronenberg)John Cothran (Gypsy #1)Garrett Bergfeld (Gypsy #2)Richard Cosentino (Gypsy Guard)Robert John Metcalf (Gypsy #3)Joel Bennett (Gypsy #4)
Director
John Carpenter
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Synopsis
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.
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