Snake Pliskin, model for both Automatic Jack and Armatage is getting his own Anime.

If that's not enough, it's being directed by Mamoru Oshii of Ghost in the Shell Fame.

It don't get better than this.

greenboy

How do you figure that Snake Pliskin is/was a model for AutoJack? I mean, I don't see it.

OMG!!! That sounded too good to be true so I decided to check on it and I found some infoHere. Here's what it said:

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Animated Snake Plissken Project Details
A Coming Attractions source, reportedly working on the Snake Plissken animated project, passed along some info.

First announced in the summer of 2002, the anime movie is one of three new projects featuring John Carpenter's post-apocalytic character first seen in Escape From New York. Hurricane Comics will release the first issue of John Carpenter's Snake Plissken Chronicles this spring, the start of an ongoing comic book series chronicling the adventures of Snake the day after the conclusion of Escape From New York. Also in development is a video game. Star Kurt Russell has agreed to lend his voice to both the anime movie and the video game.

The anime will be directed by Mamoru Oshii and created by Production IG, the creators of the internationally known anime film Ghost in the Shell.

Corona was also told one rumor that may (or may not) come to pass: John Carpenter may be lending his voice to one of the anime's main characters.

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Oh that's going to fun!
Thanks for tipping us onto this.

If your not outraged, you're not paying attention!

Great! Hated Escape from L.A.
Did Plisken meet Armitage "over there"?

Val

I thought every knew this.

In His early interviews Gibson said watching Escape from New York excited him to the possibilities of a character who was a veteran of the Third World War.

Plisken flew a glider into Soviet territory, He was injured and he felt betrayed by his coountry and command (you have to read the novelisation to get most of that, but an extended DVD will come out, that should clear up most questions of his origin)

Jack lost his arm hang gliding over kiev with a radar set warming his nuts. He looses his arm and becomes a victim of a very swift third world war. It is not clear whether he feels betrayd.

Armatage is also a veteran of the third world war (quite likely the same on as Jack's). He certainly feels betrayed, it becomes teh key meaning in his existence. Does he fly a glider. I'll have to go back and check, it's been years.

greenboy

Val, Check this old interview for a more speific statement on the influence of Escape fom New York,

http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/gibson_interview.html

greenboy

Snake Pliskin, I thought he was dead?

I thought he'd be taller.

Justin Roby
Adjunct Instructor in English
GWU