One of the genres most loved and most under-used anti-heros, Snake Plissken of John Carpenter's ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK and ESCAPE FROM L.A. is returning to the eyes of fans, this time in a new comic book series.
Spring 2003 will see the launch of JOHN CARPENTER'S SNAKE PLISSKEN CHRONICLES, a collaboration between the iconic genre director and VIOLENT MESSIAHS penciller Tone Rodriguez.
As Carpenter gushed in the a press release heralding the series, "They're great. We've got a great artist here. I grew up with comic books, going way back, and I was always interested in the art. So I'm very delighted, very delighted."
Another MESSIAHS powerhouse, co-creator William O'Neill, will write the series which begins after the events of L.A.
But here's the big news:
As Debra Hill, ESCAPE producer, reveals, ""Our goal is to brand SNAKE PLISSKEN like other movie or comic book icons such as Spider-Man, Batman and Superman starting with the new comic... In addition to the comic, 2003 and 2004 will see a release of novels, a Japanese Anime feature and a video game. A new DVD collection of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK will be coming out next spring from MGM. It will feature missing footage, lots of new commentary and interviews from the original."
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