9 Abandoned Sequel Plots That Sound Better Than The Movies We Got

Escape From L.A. was a disappointment to everyone; a campy mess, the CGI was appalling and it was a blatant copy of the original. Kurt Russell was still cool, but it wasn’t a movie worthy of Snake Plissken.

There was, however, a version written a decade earlier, that sounds more inventive. It was a prequel set two years before Escape From New York, with Snake being dropped into L.A. after it becomes a massive insane asylum. He's given two days to survive inside for some unknown objective, and he has to fight through all matter of mutated freaks and evil cultists.

In the end, he discovers his mission was designed by the military to prove he’s the best soldier alive; they've made clones of Snake to sell to other countries, and his final test is to fight a superior version of himself.

In a shocking twist, he ends up killing himself by diving into a vat of cloned cells and dissolving. His clone than inherits his memories and pain, and starts killing the people who betrayed Snake; he even starts bleeding from Snake's deformed eye.

The ending is somewhat ambiguous, but it heavily hints the Snake we met in the original was just another clone. Well, they did think he was dead.