John Carpenter released Escape from LA in 1996 a sequel to the 1981 film Escape form New York. The sequel follows the protagonist of both films Snake as he is captured by the New Moral America and dropped into the country’s immoral detention centre to steal a doomsday device designed to douse all power on the planet. 

 After this both Carpenter and the series star Kurt Russel had plans to make Escape from Earth. The final part of the trilogy would be set in a warzone like future without electricity. Carpenter and Russel planned for the third film to be big budget but after Escape from L.A. flopped paramount was not willing to fund the film and the project died. One previous attempt at a potential Snake Plissken sequel came in 1996. Carpenter submitted a screenplay for a film called Escape from Mars. Paramount passed and the film was changed to Ghosts of Mars. Carpenter, Russell, and Hill pitched a Snake Plissken 100-episode TV series. Russell would not be reprising the lead role However, the networks passed because the project was considered too dark for early 2000s television. The franchise has also been considered in other mediums. A video game called “Snake Plissken’s Escape” was approved, planned, and in the works for PlayStation 2, before it was cancelled in 2004. There were plans to bring Escape from New York into comics, and there was rumours Russell would voice Snake in an Anime adaptation of Escape from Earth. Also, attempts to reboot Escape from New York passed through such directors Robert Rodriguez in 2017 and Leigh Whannell in 2019.

Weather or not another Escape film is made one thing is for certain. It is fascinating to speculate on the possibility of a third instalment of Snakes story.