Kurt Russell’s Hit Sci-Fi Franchise Is Finally Getting an Official Sequel 30 Years Later

Snake Plissken is a man who doesn't know when to quit. He's always one step away from punching society right in the old bread basket, and that's why we love him, and always have since the first time he appeared in John Carpenter’s Escape From New York, which remains one of the great dystopian action movies of the 1980s and, indeed, of all time. It dropped us right into a broken America where Manhattan had been turned into a maximum-security prison, giving us one of the most wild plots imaginable. It's been quiet for a while — despite chat of a Zack Snyder-helmed reboot — but now, nearly 30 years after Escape From L.A., the story is officially continuing in a new comic book sequel.