"I want these motherfucking snakes off the motherfucking plane!" It can only be Snakes On A Plane, which surely must be one of 2006’s most anticipated films. But until recently, that line was only ever uttered by a Samuel L Jackson sound-alike in a fan-made trailer. But the producers of the crap-tastic seeming camp horror have been listening to the fans.
How else do you explain the fact that cast and crew have just gathered for five additional shooting days? Work which will bump Snakes from the planned PG-13 rating to a racier, nudier, bloodier, snakier R in the US. The pressure from the fan community – which has exploded around the movie has reached huge levels. Already there are T-shirts, online blogs and even an acronym – SoaP, which is rapidly replacing “Shit happens” as a phrase.
And all this for a small horror thriller not scheduled to hit any cinema before August. But even the star is enthusiastic: “That's the only reason I took the job: I read the title," Jackson told entertainment site Collider.com. "You either want to see that, or you don't."
Snakes stars the former Jules as an FBI agent who has to fight a planeload of fanged beasties unleashed by an assassin bent on killing a witness in protective custody. Translation: snakes kill people. A lot.
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