SNAKES ON A WHAT???
From Newsweek: April 10, 2006 issue - The script is pure Hollywood schlock. A witness under FBI protection is flying from Hawaii to Los Angeles. A mobster wants him dead before he can testify. But how can the bad guy get to him? A selection from the script: "Hundreds of oxygen masks DEPLOY, dangling over the seats—but it's not just oxygen masks. IT'S SNAKES."
Forget Cruise. Forget Hanks. The summer's most buzzed-about movie is a grade-C thriller about passengers besieged by a plane full of snakes, and it's called ... wait for it ... "Snakes on a Plane." Thanks to its ingeniously stupid title, the film, starring Samuel L. Jackson, is already a cult classic five months before it hits theaters. On the Web, fans have made their own "Snakes on a Plane" (or "SoaP") T shirts, cut their own trailers, even filmed their own raps. The ringleader: Brian Finkelstein, a Georgetown law student who hosts an all-"SoaP," all-the-time blog called ... wait for it ... Snakes on a Blog. "My goal was to get invited to the première, but it grew," says Finkelstein. "I never expected to be talking to a reporter about this."
New Line, the studio releasing the film, is paying close attention to the "SoaP" buzz, going so far as to insert a line of dialogue that fans scripted for Jackson. "I don't think you can print it," says director David Ellis. "We didn't use the exact line, but it's really close." Suffice it to say, the line includes Jackson's preferred 12-letter swear word. Will Finkelstein's red-carpet dream come true? "Absolutely," says Ellis. "We're gonna fly him out here." Or maybe he should drive.
—Devin
"I don't think I had the nuts in that tourney at any point except when I hit quads on the river against Lindy"