Studio executives pressured John Carpenter to cast a seasoned "tough guy" actor for the role of Snake. Among their preferences were Chuck Norris, Nick Nolte, Tommy Lee Jones, and Charles Bronson. However, Carpenter dismissed these choices as either too old (Bronson was sixty years old) or too typecast or simply not right for the part. At the time, twenty-nine old Kurt Russell was best known for light-hearted Disney roles such as "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" and had no experience playing gritty action roles. However, Carpenter and Producer Debra Hill both agreed his youth, looks, athleticism, and freshness to the action genre made him the ideal choice for the part.
Movies like Escape from New York (movies similar to Escape from New York)
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Dredd 2012
In the future America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called ...
Dredd features intense, futuristic, exciting, suspenseful and stylized style.
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son John the future leader of the resistance is the target for a newer more deadly terminator. Once again the resistance has ...
Terminator 2: Judgment Day features exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense and rough style.
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The Terminator 1984
In the post-apocalyptic future reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the quotTerminatorquot back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical ...
The Terminator features suspenseful, bleak, serious, rough and atmospheric style.
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior 1981
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre ...
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior features cult film, bleak, stylized, exciting and rough style.
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Demolition Man 1993
Simon Phoenix a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996 has escaped during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor John Spartan who had also been ...
Demolition Man features futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized and semi serious style.
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Judge Dredd 1995
In a dystopian future Dredd the most famous judge a cop with instant field judiciary powers is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.
Judge Dredd features futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, exciting and tense style.
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The Chronicles of Riddick 2004
After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the future of the human race. Now waging incredible battles on fantastic and deadly worlds this lone ...
The Chronicles of Riddick features exciting, rough, serious, futuristic and epic style.
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Lockout 2012
Set in the near future Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the Presidents daughter from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security ...
Lockout features futuristic, exciting, rough, suspenseful and suspense style.
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2019: After the Fall of New York 1983
After a nuclear war society breaks down into two groups the evil Euraks and the rebel Federation. A mercenary named Parsifal is hired by the Federation to infiltrate New York City which is controlled by the Euraks to rescue the only fertile ...
2019: After the Fall of New York features exciting, futuristic, rough, stylized and suspenseful style.
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Doomsday 2008
A lethal virus spreads throughout the British islesinfecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three ...
Doomsday features futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, rough and serious style.
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No Escape 1994
In the year 2022 a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates Absolom a secret jungle island where prisoners are abandoned and left to die. But Marine Captain John Robbins convicted of ...
No Escape features futuristic, bleak, exciting, serious and rough style.
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First Blood 1982
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy the Vietnam vet snaps runs for the hills and rat-a-tat-tats his way into the action-movie hall of fame. Hounded by a relentless sheriff Rambo ...
First Blood features exciting, serious, intense, suspenseful and tense style.
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Ghosts of Mars 2001
Melanie Ballard Natasha Henstridge is a hard nosed police chief in the year 2025. She and a police snatch squad are sent to Mars to apprehend a dangerous criminal James Williams Ice Cube. Mars has been occupied by humans for some time and they ...
Ghosts of Mars features suspenseful, scary, rough, futuristic and suspense style.
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Universal Soldier 1992
An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android UniSols a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldiers memories he ...
Universal Soldier features rough, exciting, suspenseful, serious and intense style.
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Assault on Devils Island 1997
When one of Mike McBrides men goes rogue and takes a group of gymnasts hostage to Devils Island in exchange for the return of drug lord Carlos Gallindo the SEALS face their most perilous assignment yet.
Assault on Devils Island features realistic, serious, rough, exciting and sexy style.
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Dredd 2012
In the future America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called ...
Dredd features futuristic, intense, neo noir, exciting and suspenseful style.
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Big Trouble in Little China 1986
When trucker Jack Burton agreed to take his friend Wang Chi to pick up his fiancee at the airport he never expected to get involved in a supernatural battle between good and evil. Wangs fiancee has emerald green eyes which make her a ...
Big Trouble in Little China features humorous, stylized, exciting, semi serious and suspenseful style.
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Speed 1994
Los Angeles SWAT cop Jack Traven is up against bomb expert Howard Payne whos after major ransom money. First its a rigged elevator in a very tall building. Then its a rigged bus--if it slows it will blow bad enough any day but ...
Speed features exciting, suspenseful, suspense, tense and twists and turns style.
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The Rock 1996
FBI chemical warfare expert Stanley Goodspeed is sent on an urgent mission with a former British spy John Patrick Mason to stop Gen. Francis X. Hummel from launching chemical weapons on Alcatraz Island into San Francisco. Gen. Hummel demands 100 ...
The Rock features exciting, tense, serious, twists and turns and suspense style.
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