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There is a movie coming out a year from now starring Samuel L. Jackson that sounds so incredibly bad it has to be good. It had been called Pacific Air Flight 121 but has recently gone back to it's original, silly, brilliant title:

Snakes On a Plane.

That was not a typo. That's the actual title. Kind of like The 40-Year Old Virgin, this one is completely self-explanatory. Jackson explains:

"We're going back. It's not Flight 121. It's like, come on. You either want to see this movie or you don't. Snakes on a Plane. There's no mystery to that."

On the off chance the explicit title isn't enough of a selling point, the actor launches into a pithy synopsis of the slithering tour de force.

"I'm an FBI agent transporting a witness from Hawaii to Los Angeles. The kid has witnessed a murder by a gangster who personally killed somebody -- stupid gangster -- and the kid saw it. In the middle of the ocean, this crate time releases and there's 500 poisonous snakes in there and they scatter out all over the plane. We can't go back and we've got to go forward. So it's us battling snakes to LA."

He pauses for emphasis and then reiterates, "Fighting snakes to LA."

Can't you just hear Jackson saying that? You've got to give him credit. He knows when he's working for a paycheck and doesn't pretend anything else. He seems to be enjoying his time on this "no-brainer."

"You don't have to think about it. There's snakes. I get to spend six and a half weeks going to set every day going, 'Ah! Ah! Oh! Ow!' I don't have to go in every day and figure out the dramatic purpose of this particular scene."

Hilarious! This is going to be the best guilty pleasure since another Jackson-starrer, Deep Blue Sea. And wouldn't that one have been even better if it were called something like Smart Sharks? Or Smart Sharks That Eat People in Reverse Order of Their Attractiveness? (Okay, maybe that one's too long.) Anyway, this one is going to be something. I am totally going to see this one in Times Square where the crowd is sure to be screaming their heads off. I might even bring a bag of rubber snakes and throw them in the air at just the right time just to see people go crazy. It could be unforgettable. And Jackson knows it.

If you want even more information about this soon-to-be classic, visit screenwriter Josh Friedman's blog for his hilarious behind-the-scenes take on the project. And you MUST SEE THE PICTURES.