People felt sick when they attended a preview screening and had to leave the theater.
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On opening weekend, August 10, 1996, there was a region wide power outage when the western electric grid experienced a blackout affecting seven western states. Such a wide spread power outage would be similar to the capabilities of the "Sword of Damocles" electromagnetic pulse. Many theaters lost power during the movie, some soon after Snake Plisskin activates the world EMP code or some experienced city wide power outages when they exited the movie.
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Filming began on December 11, 1995.
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There are several references to Snake Plissken and the city of Cleveland. This is an in-joke reference to a friend of John Carpenter's who knew a guy from Cleveland named Snake Plissken; this is supposedly where Carpenter got the name for the character, when he was writing Escape from New York (1981)
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Shirley Walker composed Batman: The Animated Series (1992), which starred John Carpenter's ex-wife Adrienne Barbeau as Catwoman.
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President of Paramount Pictures Sherry Lansing was a fan of Escape from New York (1981), and wanted John Carpenter, Kurt Russell, and Debra Hill to make the sequel in the same vein as the original.
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Filmed on the "Paramount" backlot.
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Kurt Russell's first and only writing credit.
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Kurt Russell was paid $10 million.
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The Plutoxin 7 virus hoax was originally going to be part of the first movie, but was never used.
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It took over 150 computer-generated effects to create one underwater sequence.
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White Zombie contributed the track "The One" written specifically for the soundtrack to Escape From L.A.. White Zombie's frontman Rob Zombie later went on to direct a remake of John Carpenter's Halloween (1978).
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Kurt Russell was 45 when he made this film. He worked out for several months to get back into Plissken shape.
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The last 20 minutes of the film are effectively in real time.
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The scene where Snake and Eddie are on the Queen Mary walking toward their meeting with Hershe was filmed aboard the actual Queen Mary in Long Beach, in one of the ship's gutted and abandoned boiler rooms. The meeting itself was not filmed on board; the room may have been meant to resemble the ship's Second Class swimming pool, located on E Deck aft, which was destroyed in the 1968-71 conversion.
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The building Plissken crashes into is the "black tower" at Universal. It's where movie executives work. John Carpenter recalled, "I've had my own fights over there, and have always wanted to take something through it."
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The film is known for having rather poorly produced CGI. This was due to the fact that the employees at the visual effects house, Buena Vista Visual Effects had never dealt with computer graphics before, and didn't really know how to achieve them properly.
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Happy Kingdom was supposed to be Disneyland, but Disney didn't give them permission.
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Donald Pleasence didn't reprise his role as the President from "Escape from New York (1981)" due to his declining health at the time. He later died in 1995 while filming was taking place and was replaced with Cliff Robertson.
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The Plutoxin 7 being revealed as flu is a nod to John Carpenter and Kurt Russell's earlier film Big Trouble in Little China (1986), in which Kurt was sick with flu during production on the film.
Escape from L.A. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Escape from L.A. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Escape from L.A. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Escape from L.A. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Escape from L.A. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Escape from L.A. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Escape from L.A. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Escape from L.A. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Escape from L.A. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Escape from L.A. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Escape from L.A. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Escape from L.A. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Escape from L.A. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Escape from L.A. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Escape from L.A. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Escape from L.A. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Escape from L.A. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Escape from L.A. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Escape from L.A. - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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