Did Napoleon Wilson "reappear" as Snake Plissken?

mike_plumbs

The character of Snake Plissken was created by John Carpenter and Nick Castle. Plissken is the protagonist in Escape from New York and Escape from L.A. . I recently noticed the following blurb on IMDb in regards to Plissken's character and another character created by John Carpenter. From IMDb : Interestingly the character of Napoleon Wilson would essentially reappear as Snake Pliskin in another John Carpenter film Escape from New York (1981) Am...

Originally asked by steelersquirrel on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Plissken is referred to by Carpenter as a descendant of Wilson but I think this is meant more in character refinement or spiritual descendant terms rather than actual ancestry...but it's not impossible he meant it literally . So not the same person but, arguably, related...one way or another. Speaking to AintItCool.com AICN: Snake is one of my favorite examples of a leading man anti-hero, so can we talk a little bit about how you guys created the very not dick-ish asshole that everybody still loves to this day? Carpenter: Look, Snake Plissken is a direct descendant of Napoleon Wilson from Assault on Precinct 13 . He's cut from the same cloth. They are a combination of people. One is a guy I...

Full answer by Paulie_D: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/70297 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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