Hideo Kojima gets thumbs up from John Carpenter

Escape From New York director John Carpenter has told CVG that he gave his blessing to Hideo Kojima to use the movie's Snake Plissken as inspiration for Metal Gear Solid's Solid Snake.

[Cloudberry]

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And amusing how Kojima's a movie fan.

Snake & Snake Plissken = suited.

Jack (Raiden) & Rose (Metal Gear Solid 2) vs Jack & Rose (Titanic) = not so much, in my opinion. XD

[IrishAssa]

Also good to note that in Mgs2 Snake was called Plissken for half of it/

[Snoogins]

Solid Snake taken from Escape From movies.
Snatcher took from Terminator the Bioroids, and from Blade Runner the flying cars, the city and Harrison Ford's character inspired Gillian Seed.
Lethal Weapon's Murtaw and Riggs inspired the two guys from Policenauts.

I remember seeing a comparison with photos on a forum, but I can't seem to find it to use as citation.

[hatchimatchi]

john carpenter rules

[MGRogue2017]

Whose John Carpenter..?

Just kidding. Thumbs up from me aswell.. 'Was playing MGS4 last night.. What a game! :)

[shqype]

MY John Carpenter.

=p

[Acquiescence]

Dark Star
Halloween
Big Trouble In Little China
Escape From New York
Assault On Precinct 13

All indisputable classics. John Carpenter needs a career revival.

[rekonizakilla]

THEY LIVE

[Mr Vengeance]

Rowdy Roddy Piper FTW!!!

[rekonizakilla]

Best fight scene ever!

[Snoogins]

I came here for two things: kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum.

I laughed my ass off when he went into a bank with a shotgun and just started blasting! Can you imagine how the non-aliens felt when they witnessed that? lol

[Wolf873]

Prince of Darkness and In Mouth of Madness.

[shqype]

One of my English professors in college showed us that movie, In the Mouth of Madness, and I thought it was a genuinely scary and intense movie. We never got to see the very end as class ended before we could finish it, but I was always curious how it ended. The last thing I remember was the guy trying to escape from the town, but the exit always brought him back to where he started, like an infinite loop of terror.

[Wolf873]

With no justification?

Anyways, yeah In The Mouth of Madness is a good movie. In the end (spoiler) everything just turns to chaos. Protagonist escapes the asylum when it is also attacked by the creatures. He wanders into a movie theater that is showing the movie version of Sutter Cane's final book, which is practically the same movie we the audience were watching. That makes him completely insane as he. Movie ends. (Spoiler end). Watch the movie again if you get the chance, the end of days trilogy (includes Prince of Darkness, The Thing, and In Mouth of Madness) by Carpenter are classics in my opinion.

[Corrwin]

But it would be too awesome to be contained.

[DelbertGrady]

A little known fact is that Sony actually had Snake in development long before Carpenter used him in his movies.

[BldyShdw]

A little known fact is that people who think they are funny, usually aren't.

[Man In Black]

A little known fact is that you're getting boring extremely quickly.

[USEYOURFIST]

i thought it was m$ who are doing the "we invented it first even if everyone else did it first"

[dragonelite]

Yeah cause snake is such a original character looks like generic super solder number 196. Most militairy character are generic just like masterchief and others.

[Darkfiber]

But how many super soldiers have awesome mullets and mustaches?

[Man In Black]

Plus, he has a sense of humour, and voice, unlike a certain Chef.
Another thing, he's not a super soldier.
Also, how many generic military characters spare the time to masturbate to pictures of women in lockers? Exactly.

[TheBand1t]

I'd imagine quite a few, actually.

[Basil-Rathboner]

There was talk of a reboot to the Escape from franchise about 2 years ago. Gerard Butler (300) was up for the role of Snake Plissken but i don't think Kurt Russeli was too happy about that and the project was put on hold. The remake of Escape from New York has suffered many script changes and difficulties and as of now i believe Josh Brolin is taking on the role.
If it was done right, i would love another Plisken movie.

[Snoogins]

They rehash movies worse than a certain company milks the tit of an aged plumber (at least those games are consistently good), especially classics and Asian cinema. When I found out they were going to remake Escape from New York, I bet I was even more pissed than Kurt Russell. Coens are remaking True Grit. Pretty soon we'll just have an ocean of shitty cash-in remakes and a population so fucking retarded they won't realise there are far more spectacular originals. Hollywood has run out of ideas. Such is the death of mainstream American cinema.

[Newtype]

This type of thing has been out there for a long time, which is why Snake looks/sounds like Kurt Russel.

[Voyevoda]

This article told be absolutly NOTHING.