Sideshow has announced a new licensing partnership for 2023. The company has shared that its next high-end collectible project draws influence from none other than John Carpenter‘s 1981 misanthropic movie masterpiece, Escape from New York.
“You go in, find the president, bring him out in 24 hours, and you’re a free man.” – Bob Hauk, USPF
S.D. Bob “Snake” Plissken. A Lieutenant in the Special Forces Unit “Black Light.” Two Purple Hearts. The youngest man to be decorated by the president. Then he robbed the Federal Reserve Depository, and was sentenced to a life sentence in the New York Maximum Security Penitentiary.
Snake is about to get his ass kicked out of the world, but when Air Force One is hijacked by anti-government insurgents and deliberately crashed behind the walls of Manhattan Island, he finds himself unwillingly drafted into a new covert mission. With micro-explosives implanted in his neck, and only 22 hours to save the president, the clock is ticking…
Co-written, co-scored, and directed by the legendary John Carpenter, and starring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Isaac Hayes, and Adrienne Barbeau, Escape from New York combined dystopian sci-fi with a world-weary but effortlessly cool antihero to create a new breed of gritty and cynical action movie for the ’80s.
No details have been revealed yet about Sideshow’s new Escape from New York collectibles yet.
The Gullfire is waiting…
Source: Graphic Policy
