Snakes on a Plane (2006)

Regisseur:

David R. Ellis

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

John Heffernan (screenplay) and
Sebastian Gutierrez (screenplay) ...

Premierendatum:

18. August 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Thriller

Werbezeile:

On August 18th Summer Really Begins

Plot:

An FBI agent takes on a plane full of deadly and poisonous snakes, deliberately released to kill a witness being flown from Honolulu to Los Angeles to testify against a mob boss.

Plot Keywords:

Bathroom | Tridacna | Urination Scene | Music Video During Credits | Airphone

Filmpreise:

1 nomination

Nutzerkommentare:

You can't manufacture cult films

US TV Schedule:

Sun. May 18

12:15 AM

HBO

Besetzung

Samuel L. Jackson	...	Neville Flynn
Julianna Margulies	...	Claire Miller
Nathan Phillips	...	Sean Jones
Rachel Blanchard	...	Mercedes
Flex Alexander	...	Three G's
Kenan Thompson	...	Troy
Keith Dallas	...	Big Leroy (as Keith "Blackman" Dallas)
Lin Shaye	...	Grace
Bruce James	...	Ken
Sunny Mabrey	...	Tiffany
Casey Dubois	...	Curtis
Daniel Hogarth	...	Tommy
Gerard Plunkett	...	Paul
Terry Chen	...	Chen Leong
Elsa Pataky	...	Maria

Alternativ:

Anaconda 3 (USA) (fake working title)
Flight 121 (USA) (working title)
Pacific Air 121 (USA) (working title)
Pacific Air Flight 121 (USA) (working title)
SoaP (USA) (promotional abbreviation)

MPAA:

Rated R for language, a scene of sexuality and drug use, and intense sequences of terror and violence.

Länge:

105 Min

Produktionsland:

Deutschland | USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Altersfreigabe:

Argentina:16 | Portugal:M/16 | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Netherlands:16 | Malaysia:U (cut) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Australia:M | Sweden:15 | Singapore:M18 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Singapore:NC-16 (cut) | Ireland:15A | Singapore:NC-16 (edited version) | USA:R (certificate #42661) | Finland:K-15 | Hong Kong:IIB | Brazil:16 | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | Canada:18A (Manitoba) | UK:15 | New Zealand:M | Malaysia:18SG | South Korea:18 | Romania:I.C.-14 | Italy:VM14 | Germany:16 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Zurich)

Drehorte:

The Lot - 1041 North Formosa Avenue, West Hollywood, California, USA

Firma:

Eyetronics USA

Dies und das:

The filmmakers named the large Burmese python "Kitty".

Pannen:

Faktische Fehler: When the aircraft loses power, the cabin is shown to go completely dark. This would not happen as these size aircraft have emergency lighting in the cabin and on the flight deck which is activated by the loss of normal aircraft electrical power. They are self contained battery types, they come on automatically and remain activated until turned off by the crew, and there are numerous independent sections of them on an aircraft.

Dialogzitate:

[first lines]
Daniel Hayes: [to Sean] Go. Get out of here. Go!

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Wird parodiert in Destination: Infestation (2007) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Hey Now Now

You can't manufacture cult films

$25,000 Pyramid Clues: Deep Blue Sea. Tremors. Slither. Eight Legged Freaks.

Pyramid Category: Movies that were funnier and more thrilling than Snakes on a Plane.

Hell, with that definition I'd have to include the relatively harrowing journey of Ted and Elaine in Airplane! as superior to Snakes in both laughs and thrills.

The sad truth is that this isn't even close to the mother of all unintentionally intentional funny snake movies: Anaconda! Besides the never to be seen again casting of JLo-Cube-O.Wilson-Stoltz-Wuhrer in the same flick, you had Jon Voight pulling off the all-time cinematic heist. His final scene alone represents everything SOAP tried and failed to do as a "so-ludicrous-it's-fun" movie.

In the end, Snakes on a Plane is definitive proof that studio execs and fanboys make the worst collaborators possible. Every big scene had been discussed and dissected so much the last year, all that was left to amuse by opening night was the amount of fanboy flop-sweat that had to be mopped up at my theater. I heard more forced laughs here than at a studio taping for "According to Jim".