Regardless of the perceived similarities between Escape From New York’s Snake Plissken and Steel Gear Strong’s Strong Snake, actor Kurt Russell says he by no means had any curiosity in voicing an identical character in a online game.
Throughout a GQ video breaking down a few of Russell’s most iconic roles, the interviewer brings up Steel Gear’s Strong Snake because the actor discusses his position as Snake Plissken in John Carpenter’s 1981 movie Escape From New York.
“There is a online game collection known as Steel Gear Strong, it was rumored that there is a character within the sport impressed by Snake Plissken, and that they requested you to do the voice over,” the interviewer prompts.
“I’m fairly lazy by nature,” Russell solutions off the bat, although he would not affirm whether or not or not he was ever approached to voice Strong Snake. “There’s been loads of completely different instances when folks have needed to do one thing… I do not know, I’m a film man.”
“I come from a unique period,” Russell says, after explaining he is all the time most popular to play iconic characters for only a single mission. “I wasn’t taken with increasing financially off one thing that we had created … by way of a personality.”
Steel Gear creator Hideo Kojima was reportedly virtually sued for the components of the sport that allegedly resembled Escape From New York, however was saved by his friendship with director John Carpenter. “I advised them not to try this,” Carpenter mentioned of studio CanalPlus’s plans to sue over Steel Gear Strong. “I do know the director of these video games, and he is a pleasant man, or at the very least he is good to me.”
Kojima has additionally mentioned that Strong Snake was not named after Snake Plissken, and slightly that the identify was only one that made sense for his character.