Escape from New York: Directed by John Carpenter. With Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence. In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.Snake Plissken’s eye patch in John Carpenter’s Escape from New York (1981) was Kurt Russell’s idea. He, showed up to set last minute wearing the eye patch without Carpenter’s pre-approval. Carpenter dug it and kept it, giving us Snake’s iconic look.
In this universe, Fury lost his eye in an explosion when his convoy came under attack in the desert. Fury’s convoy was transporting the military’s secret weapon Logan, a.k.a. Wolverine
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