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For the first single from Cobra Starship, see Bring It (Snakes on a Plane).
Snakes on a Plane
The image on the movie poster is a reference to the caduceus, the staff belonging to the Greek god Hermes.
Directed byDavid R. Ellis
Written byDavid J. Taylor (script/story)
John Heffernan (script/story)
Sebastian Gutierrez (script)
David Dalessandro (story)
Produced byCraig Berenson
Don Granger
Gary Levinsohn
Associate Producer:
Tawny Ellis
Jeff Katz
Executive Producer:
Stokely Chaffin
Toby Emmerich
Penny Finkelman Cox
Justis Greene
Sandra Rabins
George Waud
StarringSamuel L. Jackson
Julianna Margulies
Nathan Phillips
Bobby Cannavale
Rachel Blanchard
Terry Chen
Kenan Thompson
Todd Louiso
CinematographyAdam Greenberg
Edited byHoward Smith
Music byTrevor Rabin
Distributed byNew Line Cinema
Release dates
August 18, 2006 (US and UK)
August 24 (Australia)
Running time
105 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$33,000,000[1]
Box office$62,022,014[1]

Snakes on a Plane is a cult high concept,[2] horror-thriller feature film[3] starring Samuel L. Jackson. It was released by New Line Cinema on August 18, 2006 in North America. The film, directed by David R. Ellis, was written by David Dalessandro, John Heffernan, and Sheldon Turner.

The film gained a considerable amount of attention before its release, forming large fan bases online and becoming an Internet phenomenon, due to the film's title and premise. In response to the Internet fan base, New Line Cinema incorporated feedback from online users into its production, and added five days of reshooting. Before and after the film was released, it was parodied and alluded to on television shows and films, fan-made videos, video games, a noise album dubbed Soundtrack for the Motion Picture Snakes on a Plane, and various forms of literature. Despite the immense Internet buzz, the film's gross revenue did not live up to expectations.[2][4]

Plot

After witnessing the murder of a terrorist prosecutor by gangster emad (Byron Lawson) in Hawaii, Sean Jones (Nathan Phillips) is escorted by FBI agents Neville Flynn (Samuel L. Jackson) and John Sanders (Mark Houghton) to testify against Kim in a trial in Los Angeles. Despite increased security for the flight, Kim arranges for a time-release crate full of venomous snakes to be placed in the cargo hold of the Boeing 747-400 on which Jones will be flying from Honolulu to LAX. Passengers are given leis before they leave which have been secretly sprayed with pheromones to make the snakes more aggressive, ultimately culminating in an attempt to bring down the plane before it reaches its destination.

The crate opens midway through the flight, and the snakes make their way through the cabin. A couple having sex in a bathroom are the first killed, followed by a man urinating in another bathroom. The plane's captain, Sam McKeon, investigates an electrical short, and after fixing the problem, is killed by the viper that caused it. Co-pilot Rick (David Koechner) believes Sam has suffered a heart attack and continues to head to LAX.

Eventually some of the snakes attack Rick, and while fending them off, Rick accidentally releases the oxygen masks throughout the plane, and snakes drop into the cabin with them. Numerous passengers, including Agent Sanders, are killed in the attack. The surviving passengers, who have made their way to the front of the plane where there were no snakes, put up blockades of luggage.

Agent Flynn contacts FBI Special Agent Hank Harris (Bobby Cannavale) on the ground who gets in touch with ophiologist Dr. Steven Price (Todd Louiso). With pictures of the reptiles emailed to him via a mobile phone, Price notices that the snakes originate from all over the world and believes a Los Angeles snake dealer to be responsible.

Rick is attacked by the viper that killed Sam and the plane starts to dip downwards, causing a food trolley to crash through the luggage blockade. Many passengers flee to the first class cabin. The passengers block the cabin's entrance with an inflatable liferaft. Agent Flynn and Flight Attendant Claire (Julianna Margulies) manage to regain control of the plane after a struggle with the yokes. Rick retakes the controls and has Flynn go into the cargo hold in order to restore the air conditioning/ventilation system. Flynn discovers a mechanical panel which was intentionally left open to allow the snakes to reach the cabin.

In Los Angeles, Harris and Price go to the snake dealer's snake farm. After a shootout, in which he is bitten by a desert black snake, the dealer reveals that he was the person who illegally obtained the snakes for Kim's use. He is then taken into custody, with his stock of antivenom being commandeered for the surviving snakebite victims aboard the plane. Harris orders Kim's arrest for mass murder, stating that his only options are "gas or lethal injection".

Harris then contacts Flynn telling him that antivenom will be ready for the passengers when they land. However, Flynn discovers that the cockpit is filled with snakes and that Rick is dead. After a brief discussion, Troy (Kenan Thompson), an old friend and bodyguard to rapper Three Gs, agrees to land the plane based on prior experience. After everybody gets prepared, Flynn shoots out two windows with a pistol, causing the plane to depressurize. The snakes are blown out of the cockpit and the lower floor of the plane.

Flynn and Troy take the controls of the plane and Troy reveals that his only flight experience was from a PlayStation 2 video game flight simulator. After an emergency landing, the plane makes it safely to the terminal. The surviving passengers leave the plane, and antivenom is given to those who need it. However, just as Flynn and Sean are about to disembark the plane, a snake jumps out and bites Sean in the chest. Flynn draws his gun and shoots the snake, and paramedics rush to Sean, who is unharmed due to a bulletproof vest. Sean later takes Flynn to Bali and teaches him how to surf.

Development

The story is credited to David Dalessandro, a University of Pittsburgh administrator and first-time Hollywood writer. He developed the concept in 1992 after reading a nature magazine article about Indonesian brown tree snakes climbing onto planes in cargo during World War II. He originally wrote the screenplay about the brown tree snake loose on a plane, titling the film Venom.[5] He soon revised it, expanding upon the premise to include a plague of assorted poisonous snakes, then—crediting the film Alien—revised it once again to include "lots of them loose in the fuselage of a plane."[6] Dalessandro's third draft of Venom was turned down by more than 30 Hollywood studios in 1995. However, in 1999, a producer for MTV/Paramount showed interest in the script, followed up by New Line Studios, which took over the rights for production.

Originally, the film was going to be directed by Hong Kong action director Ronny Yu.[5] Jackson, who had previously worked with Yu on The 51st State, learned about the announced project in the Hollywood trade newspapers and, after talking to Yu, agreed to sign on without reading the script based on the director, storyline, and the title.[7]

The film's title and premise generated a lot of pre-release interest on the Internet. One journalist even wrote that Snakes on a Plane is "perhaps the most internet-hyped film of all time".[8] Much of the initial publicity came from a blog entry made by screenwriter Josh Friedman, who had been offered a chance to work on the script.[9] The casting of Jackson further increased anticipation. At one point, the film's working title was altered to Pacific Air Flight 121. In August 2005, Jackson told an interviewer, "We're totally changing that back. That's the only reason I took the job: I read the title."[10][11] On March 2, 2006, the studio reverted the title to Snakes on a Plane.[12] New Line hired two additional writers to smooth out the screenplay.[6]

Taking advantage of the Internet buzz for what had been a minor film in their 2006 line-up, New Line Cinema ordered five days of additional shooting in early March 2006 (principal photography had wrapped in September 2005).[13] While re-shoots normally imply problems with a film, the producers opted to add new scenes to the film to change the PG-13 rating to R and bring it in line with growing fan expectations. The most notable addition was a revision of a catchphrase from the film that was parodied on the Internet by fans of the film, capitalizing on Jackson's typically foul-mouthed and violent movie persona: "Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!".[5] Subsequently, the public responded favorably to this creative change and marketing strategy, leading some members of the press to speculate that "the movie has grown from something of a joke into a phenomenon".[5][14][15][16]

Samuel L. Jackson promoting the film at Comic-Con Convention in July 2006

During a July 21, 2006 panel discussion at the Comic-Con Convention in San Diego, California, a preview clip from the film was shown to a crowd of more than 6,500 people. The panel included actors Samuel L. Jackson and Kenan Thompson, director David R. Ellis, and snake-handler Jules Sylvester.[17] On June 3, 2006 while presenting the award for best film at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards, Jackson declared that Snakes on a Plane would win the award the following year, jokingly stating:[12]

No movie shall triumph over Snakes on a Plane. Unless I happen to feel like making a movie called More Motherfucking Snakes on More Motherfucking Planes.

In a move meant to exploit the attention from the film, a straight-to-DVD B-movie horror film with a supernatural twist, Snakes on a Train, was released on August 15, 2006, three days before Snakes on a Plane's theatrical release.[18]

Snakes

More than 450 snakes were used for filming to represent thirty different species of snakes.[19] The different species include a 19-foot Burmese python named Kitty (which the crew called Kong for film purposes), a Scarlet Kingsnake (the non-venomous double for the coral snake), a milk snake to fill in for the Taipan (which attacks the couple having sex), corn snakes, rattlesnakes, and mangrove snakes.[20] About two-thirds of the snakes seen throughout the film were either animatronic or computer generated.[20] The snakes that were real were mostly the non-venomous ones that are never seen attacking anyone. The scenes where someone is clearly bitten were often done with the most animation. According to the DVD, all the snakes had production names, but only Scarface (an animated pit viper), Peanut (a cobra), and Kong are mentioned by name in the audio commentary. During filming, Jackson did not come into contact with any live snakes, due to a contract clause preventing snakes from being within 25 feet (8 m) of the actor.[5]

When the film was released in theaters, rumors circulated that two live diamondback rattlesnakes had been released at a showing of the film on August 22, 2006 in Phoenix, Arizona. It was later revealed that one snake had made its way into the lobby of the theater on its own, and another had been found in the parking lot in a separate incident. The snakes were later released back into the desert.[21]

Media coverage

Print

Black Flame published the novelization of the film, written by Christa Faust.[22] The 405–page novel, contains significant amounts of backstory for characters who appear in the film only briefly or are not explored in depth, such as Ms. Bova's life story and Troy's anecdotes of Three G's as a child. It also introduces other characters who were not featured in the film at all, including a skilled Triad assassin called Lulu Fang.[23] An illustrated book from Thunder's Mouth Press, Snakes on a Plane: The Guide to the Internet Ssssssensation by David Waldon, details the Internet phenomenon and was published July 28, 2006. Waldon details various viral videos relating to the Snakes craze, and interviewed their producers to find out what about the film captured their attention.[24]

On June 13, 2006, comic book writer Chuck Dixon announced on his web site that he would be writing the comic book adaptation of Snakes on a Plane.[25] DC Comics has since released a two-issue miniseries on August 16, 2006 and September 27, 2006 under their Wildstorm imprint.

Sterling Publishing released the tie-in sudoku book Snakes on a Sudoku by Francis Heaney and Conceptis Puzzles on August 1, 2006. According to the book description, the puzzles are standard sudoku puzzles, but with the 3x3 blocks of numbers replaced with "deadly snakes" (actually, snake-shaped groups of squares).[26] Snakes on a Plane: The Complete Quote Book was released by HarperCollins on August 8, 2006.[27]

Music

On March 16, 2006, New Line Cinema publicly announced a contest on TagWorld[28] and a website promoting the film.[29] The contest allowed artists on TagWorld to have their music featured in the film. A flood of SoaP-themed songs were submitted by artists such as Captain Ahab (who ultimately won the contest), Louden Swain, the Former Fat Boys, Nispy, and others. In addition, a music video for the film, released July 10, 2006 on MTV2's Unleashed, has also generated publicity. The video is for the first song on the soundtrack CD, Cobra Starship's "Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)". Additionally, the video appears during the beginning of the credits at the end of the film.

In October 2005, Nathanial Perry and Chris Rohan recorded an audio trailer spoof, which helped fuel the Internet buzz. Perry and Rohan recorded the "motherfucking snakes" line in the audio trailer which was added to the film during the week of re-shoots. In July 2006, New Line Cinema signed a worldwide licensing agreement with the Cutting Corporation to produce an audiobook of the film.[30] The soundtrack was released on August 15, 2006.

Television

Beginning in May 2006, episodes of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and its sister show The Colbert Report contained references to Snakes on a Plane's title, the catch phrase, and general premise. Colbert accompanies the references with an imitation of Samuel L. Jackson saying "I have had it with these muthafuckin' snakes on this muthafuckin' plane!" One notable example on The Daily Show occurred just after the alleged terror plot in August 2006, which resulted in a large number of items being banned from airplanes in the United Kingdom and United States. This story was accompanied by the satirical tagline "Snakes not allowed on a plane." On August 15, 2006, Samuel L. Jackson guest featured on The Daily Show, opening with the movie's catch phrase. On August 21, 2006, during a segment on the show called "Snakes on a Plane: Could it Muthafuckin Happen Here", correspondent Samantha Bee asked a snake expert if there had been any reported snake attacks on planes. He denied it, to which Bee replied, "I've had it with these motherfuckin' experts denying that there's motherfuckin' snakes on motherfuckin' planes!"[31] Keith Olbermann has featured stories about the film and Internet buzz several times on his MSNBC news program Countdown. In addition, G4's Attack of the Show! features a semi-regular segment entitled "Snakes on a Plane: An Attack of the Show Investigation", and even had a week dedicated to the film which included interviews, including a conversation with Sunny Mabrey in a re-creation of an airplane bathroom; and a day where hundreds of snakes were on set, leading up to an event in which Olivia Munn had all of the snakes poured onto her.[32] A television edit of the famous line from the movie "I have had with these motherfuckin' snakes on this motherfucking plane" was re-made in the television version to say "I have had with these monkey-fighting Snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane!" [citation needed]

Merchandising

Several independent T-shirt manufacturers made T-shirts with graphics illustrating various humorous representations of the film. One, created by Jeffrey Rowland, depicts a frontal exterior view of a plane cockpit, with the pilot and co-pilot depicted as snakes themselves. Another uses vintage road signs to formulate "Snakes + Plane = Snakes on a Plane". An official Snakes on a Plane T-shirt was available at Hot Topic retail stores. Samuel L. Jackson was dressed in the snakes in cockpit fanshirt in the official music video Snakes on a Plane. The shirt he is wearing is from Jeffrey Rowland's TopatoCo; it is unknown if he chose the shirt himself, or if someone working on wardrobe selected it. Jackson wore another fan-made shirt (from Damnation) during the MTV Movie Awards.[33]

New Line Cinema partnered with the Internet company CafePress.com to permit fans of Snakes on a Plane to become official licensees of Snakes on a Plane merchandise. This opened the door for millions to design and sell not only t-shirts, but other gift items such as mugs. Designers are restricted from using any copyrighted images or content created by New Line Cinema (e.g. images from the film), or images/depictions of the individual actors in the film. Fans created hundreds of designs including those using the full title of the film, something allowed by the New Line Cinema/CafePress partnership.[34]

Internet

Snakes on a Plane generated considerable buzz on the Internet after Josh Friedman's blog entry[9] and mentions on several Internet portals. The title inspired bloggers to create songs, apparel, poster art, pages of fan fiction, parody films, mock movie trailers, and even short film parody competitions.[35][36]

A viral video entitled "Snakes on a Plane Early Auditions" features comedian Dave Coyne doing impressions of actors Christopher Walken, Jack Nicholson, Joe Pesci, and Robert De Niro, and Muppet Beaker, doing casting auditions for the movie.[37] The film has been featured on Digg, iFilm, and YouTube, and was included as enhanced content on the film's soundtrack. Coyne's voice can be heard in the audiobook dramatization of Snakes on a Plane.

On March 2006, the Zebro comedy group produced the first ever Snakes on a Plane music video contest. Contestants were told to write and record original songs inspired by the movie and then make them into music videos. The top three videos were produced by Zebro itself, including the rap song "Snakes on an MP3" which has been featured on Extra, MTV, CNN, and MSNBC after being put on YouTube. Another song entitled "100%: A Tribute to SoaP" is a claymation video dedicated to the film.

Many of the early fan-made trailers and later other viral videos and commercials circulated via YouTube, and captured media attention there with such titles as: "Cats on a Plane"(which was featured in Joel Siegel's review of "Snakes" on "Good Morning America"), "Snakes Who Missed The Plane", "All Your Snakes Are Belong To Us" (a spoof of the All your base are belong to us phenomenon), and "Steaks on a Train".[36] Several websites also held contests about the film in fan-submitted short films and posters. On July 6, 2006, the official Snakes on a Plane website started a promotional sweepstakes called the "The #1 Fan King Cobra Sweepstakes". The contest makes innovative use of the publicity-generating potential of the Internet, requiring contestants to post links on forums, blogs, and websites and collecting votes from the users of those sites. The winner was Max Goldberg, owner of YTMND, who opted to split the prize with the second place winner.

In August 2006, Varitalk launched an advertising campaign in which fans can send a semi-personalized message in Jackson's voice to telephone numbers of their choosing.[38] Within the first week, over 1.5 million calls were sent to participants.[38]

Trailers

In June 2006, New Line Cinema commissioned famed UK audio-visual film remixers and chop-up artists Addictive TV to cut and sample Snakes on a Plane to create trailers for the US television networks. The official teaser trailer premiered before X-Men: The Last Stand, and the first official trailer appeared online on June 26, 2006.[36] Another trailer circulated in July 2006, showing several of the snake attacks and a missing pilot and co-pilot. In addition, New Line Cinema commissioned famed UK audio-visual film remixers and chop-up artists Addictive TV to cut and sample the film to create trailers for the US television networks. Rotten Tomatoes has video clips of the official trailers, as well as fan-made trailers.[39]

Release

Critical reception

In mid-July 2006, New Line Cinema revealed that it would not be showing any advance screenings for critics.[40] After the film opened, the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 69% of critics gave the favorable rating based on a sample of 164 reviews, with an average score of 6.2/10.[39] At the website Metacritic, which utilizes a normalized rating system, the film earned a mixed rating of 58/100 based on 31 reviews by mainstream critics.[41] Reviewers reported audiences cheering, applauding, and engaging in "call and response", noting that audience participation was an important part of the film's appeal.[42][43]

The Arizona Republic's Randy Cordova, gave the film a positive review, calling the film "... an exploitation flick that knows what it wants to do, and it gets the job done expertly." and a "... Mecca for B-movie lovers."[44] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle enjoyed the film, asking his readers "... if you can find a better time at the movies this year than this wild comic thriller, let me in on it."[45] reacted to Samuel L. Jackson's performance, saying he "... bestrides this film with the authority of someone who knows the value of honest bilge. He's as much the auteur of this baby as the director and screenwriters, and that fierce glimmer in his eye is partly joy."[46]

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film one and a half stars out of four, saying that "...after all the Internet hype about those motherfuckin' snakes on that motherfuckin' plane, the flick itself is a murky stew of shock effects repeated so often that the suspense quickly droops along with you[r] eyelids."[47] David Denby of The New Yorker claimed that the film "... may mark a new participatory style in marketing, but it still gulls an allegedly knowing audience with the pseudo-morality of yesteryear."[48]

Box office

The film debuted on August 18, 2006 with some late-night screenings on August 17, 2006. Due to the amount of Internet hype surrounding the film, industry analysts estimated the movie's opening box office to be between US$20 million and US$30 million.[4] While Snakes on a Plane did narrowly beat Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby for the number one position during its opening weekend, it did not meet these estimates and grossed only $15.25 million in its opening days, a disappointment for New Line Cinema.[2] In its second weekend, the film fell to 6th place with $6.4 million, a 57.6% drop from its opening weekend revenue.[49][50][51] However, by the end of its theatrical run, the film generated $62,022,014 worldwide, nearly double the budget.[1]

Robert K. Shaye, the founder of New Line Cinema, expressed that he was "disappointed" that Snakes on a Plane was a "dud" despite "higher expectations".[52] The press declared that Snakes on a Plane was a "box office disappointment",[2][4] with the The New York Times reporting that after all the "hype Online, Snakes on a Plane is letdown at box office"[53] and Entertainment Weekly reporting that the film was an "internet-only phenomenon."[4]

Home media release

New Line Cinema released the "Snakes on a Plane" DVD on January 2, 2007. It included commentaries, deleted scenes, several featurettes, a music video, and multiple trailers. The R2 version of the DVD was released on December 26, 2006.[54] The DVD was released in Australia on December 28, 2006.A BluRay release is due in the US on September 8, 2009.

Due to its mass Internet and media interest, Snakes on a Plane has been referenced to in a variety of aspects of popular culture. After the film's release, it was referenced in music, such as songs by Kanye West and The Devil Wears Prada, the 2007 film Epic Movie, the web comic, xkcd, jokes of a sequel entitled 'Snakes on Every Plane', and video games including Guild Wars Nightfall and The Burning Crusade. The film was also referenced in the plot of television episodes of Gilmore Girls, Weeds, Two and a Half Men.[55]

Soundtrack

Untitled

The soundtrack for the film was released on August 15, 2006. The enhanced portion of the CD contains what was considered the "best of the best" of the amateur Internet creations inspired by the film, including the songs "Snakes on the Brain" by Captain Ahab and "Here Come The Snakes (Seeing Is Believing)" by Louden Swain. The single "Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)" peaked at the 32nd position of Billboard's Hot Modern Rock Tracks in 2006.[56]

  1. "Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)" by Cobra Starship
  2. "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage" (Tommie Sunshine Brooklyn Fire Remix) by Panic at the Disco
  3. "Black Mamba" (Teddybears Remix) by The Academy Is...
  4. "Ophidiophobia" by Cee-Lo Green
  5. "Can't Take It" (El Camino Prom Wagon Remix) by The All-American Rejects
  6. "Queen of Apology" (Patrick Stump Remix) by The Sounds
  7. "Of All the Gin Joints in All the World" (Tommie Sunshine's Brooklyn Fire Retouch) by Fall Out Boy
  8. "New Friend Request" (Hi-Tek Remix) by Gym Class Heroes
  9. "Around the Horn" (Louis XIV Remix) by The Bronx
  10. "Remember to Feel Real" (Machine Shop Remix) by Armor for Sleep
  11. "Wine Red" (Tommie Sunshine's Brooklyn Fire Retouch) by The Hush Sound
  12. "Bruised" (Remix) by Jack's Mannequin
  13. "Final Snakes" by Shranky Drank
  14. "Wake Up" (Acoustic) by Coheed and Cambria
  15. "Lovely Day" by Donavon Frankenreiter
  16. "Hey Now Now" by Michael Franti & Spearhead
  17. "Snakes on a Plane - The Theme" (Score) by Trevor Rabin

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