Editing Escape from New York (section)

==Release==
===Home media===

====LaserDisc releases====
''Escape from New York'' was released on [[LaserDisc]] 10 times between 1983 and 1998.<ref>{{cite web|title=LaserDisc Database - Search - Advanced Search|url=https://www.lddb.com/search.php?adv_search=Escape+from+New+York&adv_reference=|website=LaserDisc Database|access-date=24 April 2018}}</ref> A 1994 Collector's Edition includes a [[commentary track]] by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell that is still included on more recent DVD releases of the film.<ref>{{cite web|title=LaserDisc Database - Escape from New York: Collector's Edition [ID2330SU]|url=https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/05738/ID2330SU/Escape-from-New-York:-Collector's-Edition|website=LaserDisc Database|access-date=24 April 2018}}</ref>

====DVD releases====
''Escape from New York'' was released on DVD twice by [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] (USA), and once by Momentum Pictures (UK). One MGM release is a barebones edition containing just the theatrical trailer. Another version is the Collector's Edition, a two-disc set featuring a high definition remastered transfer with a 5.1 stereo audio track, two commentaries (one by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell, another by producer Debra Hill and Joe Alves), a making-of featurette, the first issue of a comic book series titled ''John Carpenter's Snake Plissken Chronicles'', and the 10-minute Colorado bank robbery deleted opening sequence.<ref name="Netherby">{{cite magazine| last = Netherby| first = Jennifer| title = Escape to a special edition| magazine = Video Business| volume = 23| issue = 34| page = 8| date = August 25, 2003}}</ref>

MGM's special edition of the 1981 film was not released until 2003 because the original negative had gone missing. The workprint containing deleted scenes finally turned up in the [[Hutchinson, Kansas]], salt-mine film depository.  The excised scenes feature Snake Plissken robbing a bank, introducing the character of Plissken and establishing a [[backstory]]. Director John Carpenter decided to add the original scenes into the special edition release as an extra only: "After we screened the rough cut, we realized that the movie didn't really start until Snake got to New York. It wasn't necessary to show what sent him there."<ref name="Hulse">{{cite magazine| last = Hulse| first = Ed| title = A newfound ''Escape''| magazine = Video Business| volume = 23| issue = 47| page = 33| date = November 24, 2003| issn=0279-571X}}</ref> The film has been released on the UMD format for Sony's PlayStation Portable.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=August 28, 2008|url=http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=4592016|title= Escape From New York (UMD Video For PSP)  |publisher=Wal-Mart }}</ref>

====Blu-ray release====
On August 3, 2010, MGM Home Entertainment released ''Escape From New York'' as a bare-bones Blu-ray.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=January 10, 2015|url=http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=15783|title=Escape From New York Collector's Edition Blu-ray|publisher=Blu-ray.com}}</ref> [[Scream Factory]], in association with [[Shout! Factory]], released the film on a special edition Blu-ray on April 21, 2015.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=January 10, 2015|url=http://www.fangoria.com/new/complete-specs-released-for-scream-factorys-escape-from-new-york-blu-ray/|title=Escape From New York Collector's Edition Blu-ray|publisher=Blu-ray.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219221640/http://www.fangoria.com/new/complete-specs-released-for-scream-factorys-escape-from-new-york-blu-ray/|archive-date=February 19, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>