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Jackson told TIME the title change to Pacific Flight 121 was "the stupidest damn thing I ever heard." 4.
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Deadly-Ass Snakes on a Plane." Jackson forced New Line's hand by telling reporters that he was working on a movie called Snakes on a Plane.
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So let 'em know: If you're coming to see this movie, you're going to see a plane full of deadly-ass snakes. People either want to see this movie or they don't. ''How else are you going to get people into the movie? Nobody wants to see Pacific Air 121. ''I was like, ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR F***ING MINDS?! That's EXACTLY what you want to do!'' he told Entertainment Weekly. New Line Cinema changed the movie's title to Pacific Air 121, with the official explanation that the studio "didn't want to give too much away" about the movie. JACKSON ALMOST QUIT WHEN THE TITLE WAS CHANGED. When asked about the most outrageous lie he's ever read about himself, Koechner told MTV, "That I did Snakes on a Plane for free. David Koechner (co-pilot Rick) also agreed to do the movie after hearing the title and that Jackson would be starring. Julianna Margulies (flight attendant Claire Miller) admitted that seeing Jackson's name attached to the ridiculous title "elevated" the project in her eyes. Though Yu eventually left the project (he was replaced by David R. "And he said, 'Poisonous snakes get loose on an airplane.' And I'm like, 'Wow, think I can be in that?' And he was like, 'You really want to be in it?' And I said 'Yes, I really want to be in it.'" Intrigued, Jackson emailed Yu and asked him what the movie was about. Jackson read in the trades that Ronny Yu was directing a movie called Snakes on a Plane. JACKSON AGREED TO STAR IN THE MOVIE BEFORE HE EVEN READ THE SCRIPT. "That was gold as far as I was concerned.'' 2. ''A visceral reaction is half the battle," Berenson explained. Explaining the concept and then the title, Snakes on a Plane, the room reportedly "exploded with groans." He took that as a good sign.
Four years later, Craig Berenson-an executive at DreamWorks-remembered the script and pitched the idea to his colleagues over margaritas.
In 1995, the script was offered up to all 30 Hollywood studios-and all of them said no. After seeing Aliens, he realized he needed to have a lot more snakes and that they needed to be a deadly breeds like the Australian taipan. His first two drafts were about one poisonous snake getting loose on a plane. THE ORIGINAL SCRIPT WAS TURNED DOWN BY EVERY HOLLYWOOD STUDIO.ĭavid Dalessandro, the associate vice chancellor of university development at the University of Pittsburgh, wrote a screenplay called Venom after reading a 1992 magazine article about Indonesian brown tree snakes climbing onto planes during World War II. The movie achieved a ton of internet buzz and was more transparently fan-sourced than any other film in history. It's Kim who is responsible for smuggling a bunch of poisonous snakes onto the aircraft on which Flynn and his charge are traveling, in an attempt to kill the witness (played by Nathan Phillips).
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Jackson as Neville Flynn, an FBI agent tasked with escorting the key witness in a murder trial against mob boss Eddie Kim (Byron Lawson) from Hawaii to California. While the plot is hardly the point of Snakes on a Plane, we may as well mention that the 2006 movie starred Samuel L.
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