Firts Pics: Snakes on a Plane

Posted by: The Dude

Our Friends at Blackfilm sent us over a couple pics for Snakes on a Plane. Snakes on a Plane is about an assassin, on board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, bent on killing a passenger who's a witness in protective custody, let loose a crate full of deadly snakes.

Rarely do I just talk about random little movie news, but I'm particularly happy about this one. Last year, I read about a movie called Snakes on a Plane. the plot description was right there in the title. You don't need anything more than that. Snakes on a Plane. It was to be directed by Ronny Yu, the genius who brought us Formula 51, and Bride of Chucky. (And Warriors of Virtue, which my roommate likes, and we all know how I love torturing him when his opinion differs from mine).

Anyway, as time went on, Samuel L. Jackson, bad mofo of the ages, signed on to star in Snakes on a Plane. however, through reasons unknown to me, Yu left the project to do something else, and David Ellis, he of Cellular and Final Destination 2, was brought on board to direct. All well and good, I find I like Ellis as a director, he makes the most out of what he's got, and his movies are pretty damn entertaining. And when you have a premise like, I don't know, say, SNAKES ON A PLANE, it's gonna be hard for him to screw it up. (For God's sake, it's not like Brett Ratner is gonna come in and make it into a Brett Ratner film. Or Uwe Boll, who could be the only person on Earth who could screw up a film as great as Snakes on a Plane. Seriously, my friends' 20 month old kid couldn't screw it up, but Boll would find a way).

But then, tragedy struck. New Line decided to change the title to something cheesy and generic. Flight 181. Or Pacific Air 181. Or something even more dumb and generic that could be mistaken for a Rob Lowe flick to be aired on Lifetime. Fact is, you have a movie called Snakes on a Plane, you leave it that way. Who were the ad wizards that came up with this one?

But I happened to read today that someone came to ttheir senses, and brought back the original title!!! HUZZAH!!!!!!!

Now we can all go out next summer and enjoy the genius that will be Snakes on a Plane. In fact, I don't care about X3, M:I3, The DaVinci Code, or anything else that's supposed to open big next summer. All I wanna see are....You guessed it.SNAKES ON A PLANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Time to go up my dosage.