Snakes on a Plane
Slated for release by New Line Cinema August 18, Snakes on a Plane is a modern action movie starring Samuel L. Jackson as FBI agent Nelville Flynn. Nelville and partner John Saunders (Mark Houghton) escort John Saunders (Mark Houghton), a former Mafia member, to testify in a highly publicized case that could bring down said Mafia. In the course of a flight between Hawaii and California, an assassin pays airport security to sneak a time-release crate of 400 snakes of various sizes on board in the hope of killing the witness.The movie has recently received mass anticipation from the internet as a result of its excellent title and premise. At one point, the film's title was switched to Pacific Air Flight 121. In August 2005, a disgruntled Samuel L. Jackson told an interviewer, "We're totally changing that back. That's the only reason I took the job: I read the title." In another interview in early 2006, Jackson claimed that once he learned about the movie title being changed he said: "What are you doing here? It's not Gone with the Wind. It's not On the Waterfront. It's Snakes on a Plane!" The film was soon reverted to the working title of Snakes on a Plane.
In the realm of the web, the somethingawful.com forum goons and other web communities are responsible for increasing the hype for this film to a high degree. In recognition of the unprecedented Internet buzz for what had been a minor movie in their 2006 line-up, New Line Cinema ordered five days of additional shooting in early March 2006. While re-shoots normally imply problems with a film, the producers opted to add new scenes to the film to take the movie from PG-13 into R-rated territory and bring the movie in line with the growing fan expectation. Among the reported additions is a line that originated as an Internet parody of Samuel L. Jackson's traditional movie persona: "That's IT! I want the motherfucking snakes off the motherfucking plane!".
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