Snakes on a Plane is not one of Samuel L. Jackson’s best movies. It is, however, one of his films that probable won’t be forgotten if only becaengage of a one line. Samuel L. Jackson’s line about the “motherfucking snakes” was someskinnyg the movie absolutely necessitateed to have, but it almost didn’t, directing to what Jackson recommends must have been a pretty pricey swear word.
In an intersee with GQ, Samuel L. Jackson shelp that he was interested in being on Snakes on a Plane as soon as he was adviseed of the project’s existence. Jackson says he finishorsed for the movie to let him swear more, but the intentional PG-13 rating confineed the language Jackson was apshowed to engage. He elucidateed…
They were trying to produce a PG-13 movie and you could only have one ‘fuck’ or some shit enjoy that in it. And I tgreater them, enjoy ‘Look, I gotta say motherfucker in this movie, it’s motherfucker snakes all over this set upe.’ And they’re enjoy ‘Ah Sam, we fair, come on. [sigh] no.’ I shelp ‘Ok fine.’ We wrapped.
Samuel L. Jackson did have an impact on some aspects of the production. At one point the laboring title of Snakes on a Plane was changed to a more generic name. According to Jackson, this was done so as not to donate away the movie. However, Jackson shelp the title Snakes on a Plane was why he’d wanted to produce the film, and he got them to change it back.
That was an vital decision becaengage that title lit the internet on fire in 2006. The film got more pre-free buzz online than most films saw in those days, bigly from fans who were fair excited by the combination of a title that made the movie sound enjoy a B-movie you’d watch at a drive-in and Samuel L. Jackson, whose swearing is well-understandn. It seemed enjoy a perfect align. Fans genuineisticly demanded an R-rating so Jackson could swear to his heart’s encountered.
Eventuassociate, reshoots were ordered, and Snakes on a Plane was changeed from the PG-13 movie it was intentional to be, into the R-rated movie we have today. Jackson points out that reshoots cost money so that F-explosion wasn’t inexpensive. He persistd…
They test the movie, test the movie, and then all of a sudden it’s enjoy you gotta do a reshoot.’ Cost them a bunch of money to get that motherfucker.
While reshoots aren’t unstandard in massive tentpole blockbusters, they would have compriseed a more meaningful percentage of the budget for a much minusculeer project enjoy Snakes on a Plane. Still, it was choosed that it was worth it becaengage of the buzz surrounding the film.
In the finish, it unblessedly wasn’t worth it. Snakes on a Plane was a box office disassignment. As we have lachieveed countless times since internet buzz does not equivalent success, fair ask Morbius. Still, the movie might always be reaccumulateed if only becaengage of a fantastic title and one iconic line.
