Movie studio wanted to go after the GAWD Kojima for "Escape from New York" rip off (Snake's look)

[Dr. Acula]

Thank god for Kojima being a nice guy

THR has a great interview with John Carpenter up on their site, and tucked away neatly in one corner of it is some interesting stuff about aMetal Gear lawsuit that never was.

While discussing an old lawsuit between Canal+ (co-owners of Carpenter’s classic Escape From New York) and Luc Besson ’s 2012 filmLockout (which lifted heavily from EFNY’s plot), Carpenter reveals that the French studio “wanted to also go after the video game Metal Gear Solid, which is kind of a rip-off of Escape From New York, too, but I told them not to do that.”

“I know the director of those games, and he’s a nice guy, or at least he’s nice to me.”


Presumably a lawyer somewhere down the line would also have pointed out that Metal Gear’s Snake is simply a homage to EFNY’s Snake Plissken, and that the convoluted paramilitary storyline of Metal Gear has almost nothing in common with Carpenter’s vision of a

 

[El Poyo Loco]

Always wanted to know why wasn't Kojima ever sued by Carpenter now I know but Metal Gear (NES) box art looks exactly like Michael Bein in The Terminator I hope a lawyer doesnt whisper in James Cameron's ear.

 

[5n0man]

Snake went by LT. Pliskin in mgs 2.

Another escape from NY reference

 

[Anti-Anime]

k00njima and his white dikk-sukking skills. fakkit probably wanted to be white when he was a kid too

 

[KravenMorehead™]

i thought it was the other way around

A part of me thinks they're all drawing from one giant old school myth cause it's solid snake, kurt russell, fukkin Nick fury, etc...