Escape From New York

Director: Len Wiseman

Rating: NR

Studio: New Line Cinemas

Release date: 2008

Synopsis:

Butler's portraying Snake Plissken, the convict and war hero who's sent into a futuristic Manhattan -- which has been turned into a giant maximum security prison -- to rescue the president of the U.S. after his plane is knocked down by terrorists. The original starred Kurt Russell and was set in 1998.

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