By going backwards, toward a state of nature, Snake Plissken goes upwards, and beyond.

Wilde remains largely positive through it all, an attitude which lends itself to his own quotation ‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars’.

It is not hard to see that the film was a painstaking operation, the product of the work of a creative team of over 100 painters. It is no surprise that this feature was six years in the making!