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March 23, 2006
Snakes one to know one: retooling the Plane
Snakes on a Plane, anyone? The Reporter's Borys Kit updates. New Line's one of the few studios to regularly take chances with extreme, outrageous R-rated materal of all sorts, and last week's reshoot of SoaP, to be released August 18, was to insure an R rating. [There are several swears below.] "Movie fans began noticing the black sheep of the New Line slate. They seized upon the title and started spontaneously creating fan sites, blogs, T-shirts, poems, fiction and songs. The title itself... has emerged as Internet-speak for fatalistic sentiments that range from c'est la vie to "shit happens." 
The Reporter quotes a website quoting Samuel L. Jackson: "That's the only reason I took the job: I read the title... You either want to see that, or you don't." Kit writes, "When [the studio] assembled Jackson and others for the recent shoot, the filmmakers added more gore, more death, more nudity, more snakes and more death scenes. And they shot a scene where Jackson does utter the line that fans have demanded." And what motherfucking line about which motherfucking snakes on which motherfucking plane might that be? [Also check out the comprehensive Snakes on a Blog, which links to today's NPR story and the official title treatment as snaked by EW; for some ancient history, move on to screenwriter Josh Friedman's original epic anecdote about the script and the titling-retitling of the pic, "Snakes on a motherfucking plane." Plus more here.]
Posted by pride at March 23, 2006 06:42 PM
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