Snakes on a Plane UPDATE

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It has become my mission in life (at least until August 18, 2006) to update our faithful readers on the movie event of the coming year: Snakes on a Plane.

As you may remember from my first post, SoaP(!) is a Samuel L. Jackson starrer about a cop that has to battle snakes on a plane during a flight from Hawaii to Los Angeles. The snakes have been set loose by mobsters that want to kill a government witness Jackson is protecting. That's it. That's the movie. It is literally just snakes on a plane. Brilliant.

Well, I've learned from Entertainment Weekly that these are not just ordinary snakes. "(The mobster)'s also gotten leis on the plane that have been sprayed with this pheromone that drives the snakes nuts," explains director David R. Ellis. "So it's kind of like snakes on crack."

Snakes on crack!!!! I love it!!!!

The film also stars Juliana Margulies (who probably didn't envision herself starring in movies like this when she turned down all that money from ER) as a flight attendant, Flex Alexander as a rapper, and Kenan Thompson as his bodyguard. They had to put a rapper onboard. I can just picture the moment when he starts freaking out all gangsta-like about the damn snakes. I'm smiling already. Director Ellis promises about three quarters of the cast will bite it so expect LOTS of gruesome, hilarious deaths. (Including one where a snakes slithers up a fat woman's muumuu while she sleeps.) Definitely not for people with snake phobias.

SoaP has become something of a sensation on the internets. Here is a link to a homemade theme song that the producers should buy immediately to slap on the end credits (after the inevitable rap song about snakes on a plane.)

Snakes on a Plane is becoming bigger than all of us.