Snakes on a Plane Phone Phun!
First off, the movie…the plot outline says it all:
FBI agents Nelville Flynn (Samuel L. Jackson) and John Saunders (Mark Houghton) escort Sean Jones (Nathan Phillips) to testify in a highly publicized case. In the course of a flight between Hawaii and California, an assassin pays airport security to sneak a time-release crate of over 500 snakes of various sizes on board in the hope of killing the witness. (wikipedia.org)
The movie has been a topic of repeated jabs, ridicule, and speculation on various blogs and message boards (see image), and it looks like the studio is taking the B movie momentum and running with it. In fact, 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 growing fan expectations. 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 have had it with these *motherfucking* snakes on this *motherfucking* plane!”. (wikipedia.org)
Anyway, if that isn’t funny enough, they have a site where you can customize a message to be e-mailed, or better yet phoned to a friend. It’s well worth the time and funny as hell. The link to send a custom message is: snakesonaplane.varitalk.com. Hurry! Before there’s still time!
And do yourself a favor, check out these parodies (thanks wikipedia!):
Snakes Who Missed The Plane (round up of some of the other sites)
Snakes on a Plane Fake Trailer
Snakes on a Plane: How Hollywood Really Works
All Your Snakes Are Belong To Us
Short film parodies