Character
Snake Plissken Movies: Every Film the Character Appears In, in Order
2 films, 1981 and 1996 · played by Kurt Russell.
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Snake Plissken appears in two films, both of them with Kurt Russell in the part, 15 years apart. The number is small and it is the whole point of the page: a film database has a record for a film and none for a character, so "how many are there" is a question that usually gets answered from memory. Below is each film, its full credited cast, and what the record currently says about a further one.
The Snake Plissken films, in order
Escape from New York 1981
- Adrienne Barbeau
- Charles Cyphers
- Debra Hill
- Donald Pleasence
- Ernest Borgnine
- Frank Doubleday
- George Buck Flower
- Harry Dean Stanton
- Isaac Hayes
- Jamie Lee Curtis
- John Carpenter
- John Diehl
- Kurt Russell Snake Plissken
- Lee Van Cleef
- Nick Castle
- Rodger Bumpass
- Season Hubley
- Steven Ford
- Tom Atkins
Escape from L.A. 1996
- A. J. Langer
- Breckin Meyer
- Bruce Campbell
- Cliff Robertson
- Georges Corraface
- Kurt Russell Snake Plissken
- Leland Orser
- Michelle Forbes
- Pam Grier
- Paul Bartel
- Peter Fonda
- Robert Carradine
- Stacy Keach
- Steve Buscemi
- Valeria Golino
- Wyatt Russell
Is there another one?
No third Kurt Russell film. The property is being remade instead.
Leigh Whannell was writing a remake in 2019, per a report that year, and has since said it is not happening for him. A Radio Silence version at 20th Century Studios never reached production. StudioCanal revived the property and Zack Snyder is now attached to write and direct a reimagining, announced at CinemaCon and reported in June 2026. A reimagining recasts the part, so it continues the property rather than the character these two films established.
Source: Deadline / The Hollywood Reporter · 2026-06 · Status last checked 2026-08
The same distinction runs through the sequel tracker: a sequel continues a story, a reboot replaces it, and a property being remade is not the same answer as a character coming back. 30 years have passed since the last film with Kurt Russell in the part.
What this page is built from
Structured film records, pulled by the same process that produces the cast pages here, not written from memory, which for credit data is how errors get in.
Questions about Snake Plissken
How many Snake Plissken movies are there?
Two: Escape from New York (1981) and Escape from L.A. (1996). 15 years separate them. That is the complete list, which is worth stating plainly, because a character does not get a record of its own in a film database and the count usually has to be assembled by hand.
Who played Snake Plissken?
Kurt Russell, in both films. The role is recorded against 2 of the 2 credits in the source data, under the character name used here.
Is there a third Snake Plissken film?
No third Kurt Russell film. The property is being remade instead. Leigh Whannell was writing a remake in 2019, per a report that year, and has since said it is not happening for him. A Radio Silence version at 20th Century Studios never reached production. StudioCanal revived the property and Zack Snyder is now attached to write and direct a reimagining, announced at CinemaCon and reported in June 2026. A reimagining recasts the part, so it continues the property rather than the character these two films established.
Does a remake count as another Snake Plissken film?
Not for the purposes of this page. A reimagining recasts the part and restarts the continuity, so it extends the property rather than the character these 2 films built. Both are worth knowing about, which is why the status above names what is actually in development instead of answering only yes or no.
Where do these details come from?
Structured film records pulled from Wikidata by the same process that builds the cast pages here, cross-checked against each film's own listed cast rather than written from memory. Where the record is thin — a missing character name, an unconfirmed billing order — the page says so, which is more useful than a confident sentence with nothing behind it.