Escape from L.A. (1996) The year is 2013 and Snake Plissken is back but this time its L.A., which through the agency of earthquakes has become an island of the damned. But something has gone wrong in this new moral order, because the Presidents daughter has absconded to L.A. with a detonation device, and Snake is commandeered to retrieve it. But just below the surface there is a coiled Snake ready to strike.