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In 2079 Washington, the former CIA operative Snow is interrogated over the killing of a fellow agent and convicted of espionage by Secret Service chief Scott Langral. He is sentenced to thirty years in MS One, a maximum security prison in orbit where inmates serve their terms in stasis. President Warnock's daughter Emilie arrives at the station to investigate claims that stasis leaves prisoners mentally unstable. A bodyguard loses a hidden pistol to the prisoner Hydell, who seizes the central control room and frees the inmates; Hydell's brother Alex leads the riot that follows. The veteran agent Harry Shaw offers Snow his freedom in exchange for bringing Emilie out of the station.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lockout (2012)
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- John Carpenter sued the makers in Paris in 2015, saying Lockout copied Escape from New York and Escape from L.A. The court agreed, awarding him 20,000 euros, 10,000 to screenwriter Nick Castle and 50,000 to StudioCanal; after Luc Besson's appeal failed in July 2016 the damages rose to 450,000 euros.
