Call me crazy, but wasn't one of the appeals of the original film and Kurt Russell's Snake the fact that he was kind of mysterious? We knew a bit about his past, but there were enough gaps there that allowed us to fill it all in with our imaginations while he searched for Donald Pleasence's missing president in the mean streets of 1997 Manhattan. An origin story could defuse all that.
Well, we'll see. But (spoilers for a 30-year-old movie!) in the meantime …
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