Snakes on a Plane.........
 

WOW.....just.....wow!

Plot Outline: On board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, an assassin, bent on killing a passenger who's a witness in protective custody, let loose a crate full of deadly snakes.

Starring: Samuel L. Jackson

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417148/

SNL did this as a sketch like 8 years ago, why is it becoming a plot for a movie?

And the F.A.N.* is in it too! Wahoooo!

Entertainment Weekly had an article about this a few weeks ago. I just had to laugh. :lol:

* This is an inside joke over in TV Talk.

At least the title isn't misleading.

http://www.blackfilm.com/i3/movies/s...aplane/006.jpg
"Is that a snake in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?"

http://www.blackfilm.com/i3/movies/s...aplane/004.jpg
"Hey, hey, hey there's a snake on me!"

SOAP is gonna kick ass!

from http://www.collider.com/index.asp?cid=9&aid=599

Collider Exclusive: ‘Snakes’ Back on the Plane!
8/14/2005

Posted by Mr. Beaks
Once and, surely, future Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson went vehemently on the record at The Man junket Sunday, assuring reptile and aviation enthusiasts the world over that the New Line production currently sporting the hopelessly drab title Pacific Air 121 will indeed be rechristened Snakes on a Plane before its hugely anticipated release date on August 18th, 2006. Here’s our exchange in its entirety:


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Beaks: One of those films that you’re working on right now is... well, it’s called "Pacific Air 121"—


Jackson: Snakes on a Plane, man!


Beaks: Exactly.


Jackson: We’re totally changing that back. That’s the only reason I took the job: I read the title.


Beaks: Snakes on a Plane! That’s everything!


Jackson: You either want to see that, or you don’t.


Beaks: And how are those snakes? Besides being on a plane?


Jackson: Some of them are aggressive, some of them are cool. They’re interesting to watch, and interesting to interact with. It depends on what kind of snake it is. One day, it took, like, four guys to bring in this 350 lb. Burmese Python. We were all like, “Where’s that goin’?” And I watched an Albino Cobra strike airplane seats the other day. I watched it from another studio. It’s actually been a fun show. But we’re taking the name back!

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As someone who’s been a fan of the project since its inception, I can’t possibly put into words the thrill of listening to Samuel L. Jackson adamantly insist that a film in which he’s starring be titled Snakes on a Plane. And he’s right! When you hit upon a concept this sui fuckin’ generis, you are duty-bound to flaunt it in the film’s title. Scuttling Snakes on a Plane would be like changing The Exorcist to Evil on the Second Floor, or The Godfather to Crooked Italians. Like my boy Judge Brack said, “People don’t do such things.”


Luckily, Sam Jackson is one of those people, and we can sleep peacefully knowing that Snakes on a Plane will arrive at a theater near you with its integrity fully intact. Godspeed, sir!


and from http://www.blackfilm.com/20050819/fe...onaplane.shtml

I know somebody who read the script to this film way before Samuel L. Jackson was involved (and they were trying to get Wesley Snipes for his role) and they said it had to be one of the worst scripts they have ever encountered in their entire time working in Hollywood.

I just want to know how they got a director who can deliver b-movie thriller gold (Final Destination 2 and Cellular) and one of the better actors in Hollywood to agree to be associated with this god-awful idea.

However, the idea is so goddamn terrible that I just want to see the movie based on the premise alone. Pretty much on the basis that I know that SOAP is a train wreck waiting to happen.

Pilot: "I've just been informed that a poisonous cobra is loose in the cabin... actually fifteen poisonous cobras are loose in the passenger cabin".

I thought I was the only person who remembered that skit.

ok, someone needs to find the old skit on the net and post it here for the world to see.

I just hope they make t-shirts that say snakes on a plane. I swear to god if they rename it I am going to deface every new poster with SOAP

Oh come on, that skit is classic.

Well, to me at least.

Screenwriter Josh Friedman was tapped to work on this at one point, and he has an awesome entry about it on his blog.

^thats awesome....

Jackson: "You either want to see that or you don't."

heh... gotta respect that attitude.

I thought this was a bullshit post for a minute but sadly it's true.

I did a search to try and find the old SNL skit but all I came up with was another discussion about the movie on another forum. All the posters were making cracks about different animals on various modes of transportation but this other bit of humor was the real gem in the thread:

...a Harry Potter sequel - Snape's on a Plane. As Trevor says, "Professor Snape from the Harry Potter movies (Alan Rickman) gets his own franchise as an ass-kicking sorcerer bent on kicking terrorists off of Air Force One."

sadly... you must think your in the rocky 6 thread....this is Snakes on a Plane....say it with me....Snakes....On a Plane

From the blog mentioned above:I was describing this movie to my wife yesterday, and I couldn't stop cracking up.

http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/3544/snakes11lw.jpg

got that from a thread on another forum and they start talking about possible sequels like "snakes on a train" or "snakes in the capital of ukraine"

(http://forums.**************.com/sho...readid=1686887)

Samuel says that he won't work with rap artists because they degrade his industry. Ummm... what does starring in movies like "The Man" and "Snakes on a Plane" do to the industry, Sam?

God, this guy is a good actor, but he's a complete moron.

It should be in Snake-o-vision.

It must have been the other Samuel L. Jackson who was in Deep Blue Sea and SWAT with LL Cool J, XXX 2 with Ice Cube and Xzibit, and Shaft with Busta Rhymes.

http://wigu.com/overcompensating/200...-on-plane.html

http://wigu.com/overcompensating/pic...esonaplane.png

Like Die Hard before it, you know if this Snakes on a Plane does well, there will be Snakes on a Boat, Snakes on a Train, Snakes at a New Years Eve Celebration...

Awesome. :lol:

Reminds me of the old '70s B-movies. The question is, is it played straight, tongue-in-cheek, or for laughs?