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Wyatt and Billy are freewheeling motorcyclists. After smuggling cocaine from Mexico to Los Angeles, they sell their haul and receive a large sum of money.With the cash stuffed into a plastic tube hidden inside the Stars & Stripes-painted fuel tank of Wyatt's California-style chopper, they ride eastward aiming to reach New Orleans, Louisiana, in time for the Mardi Gras festival.
Attempts for a sequel to Easy Rider date as far back as the 80s when Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda discussed a sequel called Easy Rider A.D. which would've featured Hopper and Fonda's characters brought back to life in the far future and riding across a post-apocalyptic United States but disputes between the first film's producer Bert Schneider and Columbia Pictures over the rights to Easy ...
The character's name was a pun on the movie Easy Rider. Fargo North, Decoder ( Skip Hinnant ): an Inspector Clouseau -type detective who decoded scrambled word messages and phrases for clients. His name was a pun based on Fargo, North Dakota .
Peter Henry Fonda (February 23, 1940 – August 16, 2019) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He was a two-time Academy Award nominee, both for acting and screenwriting, and a two-time Golden Globe Award winner for his acting.
In addition to his bit part as a hippie in Easy Rider, he also assisted in building the motorcycles featured in the film. [4] Haggerty in The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. His experience with animals also brought him work as an animal trainer and handler in films produced by Walt Disney Studios.
Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor and film director. He is known for his roles as mentally disturbed outsiders and rebels. He earned prizes from the Cannes Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.
Robert Hudson Walker Jr. (April 15, 1940 – December 5, 2019) was an American actor who appeared in films including Easy Rider (1969) and was a familiar presence on television in the 1960s and early 1970s. He became less active in later decades.
Karen Blanche Black (née Ziegler; July 1, 1939 – August 8, 2013) was an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter.She rose to prominence for her work in various studio and independent films in the 1970s, frequently portraying eccentric and offbeat characters, and established herself as a figure of New Hollywood.