John Carpenter

John Carpenter is a famous film director.

Biography
At some point in time on Earth One John Carpenter directed a known action film, which depicted a city under siege.

In 2018 when Star City was briefly in crisis due to actions of Cayden James, Rene Ramirez compared the situation to one of Carpenter's movies, erroneously naming it Escape from Detroit. Curtis Holt, being a fan of the movie was unsure whether to correct Rene on the title or embrace the reference.

Behind the scenes

 * The character is a reference to real-life cult film director, writer, producer and composer John Carpenter.
 * The movie Rene or attempts to reference is one of John Carpenter's Escape dilogy which includes titles Escape from New York and Escape from L.A.. Detroit was nowhere to be seen in the franchise with proposed third movie having a working title Escape from Earth.
 * There is however an unrelated documentary in production named ''Escape from Detroit, with title likely alluding to John Carpenter's movies.