Regardless of the perceived similarities between Escape From New York’s Snake Plissken and Metallic Gear Strong’s Strong Snake, actor Kurt Russell says he by no means had any curiosity in voicing the same character in a online game.
Throughout a GQ video breaking down a few of Russell’s most iconic roles, the interviewer brings up Metallic Gear’s Strong Snake because the actor discusses his function as Snake Plissken in John Carpenter’s 1981 movie Escape From New York.
“There is a online game sequence known as Metallic Gear Strong, it was rumored that there is a character within the recreation impressed by Snake Plissken, and that they requested you to do the voice over,” the interviewer prompts.
“I am fairly lazy by nature,” Russell solutions off the bat, although he would not verify whether or not or not he was ever approached to voice Strong Snake. “There’s been loads of totally different occasions when individuals have wished to do one thing… I do not know, I am a film man.”
“I come from a special period,” Russell says, after explaining he is at all times most well-liked to play iconic characters for only a single venture. “I wasn’t interested by increasing financially off one thing that we had created … when it comes to a personality.”
Metallic Gear creator Hideo Kojima was reportedly nearly sued for the elements of the sport that allegedly resembled Escape From New York, however was saved by his friendship with director John Carpenter. “I informed them not to try this,” Carpenter stated of studio CanalPlus’s plans to sue over Metallic Gear Strong. “I do know the director of these video games, and he is a pleasant man, or not less than he is good to me.”
Kojima has additionally stated that Strong Snake was not named after Snake Plissken, and somewhat that the identify was only one that made sense for his character.