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Lockout movie trailer
The sci-fi movie Lockout is so reminiscent of John Carpenter's Escape from New York that it could be called a full-fledged remake. In fact, according to Yahoo, a French court ruled that the film plagiarized both Escape from New York and its Carpenter-directed sequel Escape from L.A.
The plot follows Snow - played by Guy Pearce trying to track down Kurt Russell - a wrongly convicted government agent who has been promised his freedom if he saves the president's daughter. First, he must travel to the space facility where she is being held. Unfortunately, this facility is actually a prison for 500 dangerous criminals.