Snakes on a Plane (2006) on Netflix
A prosecutor's murder makes Sean Jones the witness against crime lord Eddie Kim. FBI agent Neville Flynn flies him to Los Angeles. A crate of venomous snakes waits in the cargo hold.
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Plot summary
Sean Jones sees crime lord Eddie Kim kill a prosecutor in a Hawaiian forest, and Kim's men come after him next. FBI agent Neville Flynn stops them and puts Sean on a Boeing 747 to Los Angeles to testify at Kim's trial. Kim's answer is a time-release crate of venomous snakes in the cargo hold, and a henchman posing as a ground crew member coats the passengers' leis with a pheromone that drives the snakes into a frenzy. Flynn, flight attendant Claire Miller and the passengers share the cabin with an anxious flyer and his wife, a rapper, his bodyguard Troy, and a young woman with her dog. When the crate opens, the snakes spread through the plane, and Flynn has to keep the witness alive until they land.
Cast
![Keith Dallas as Big Leroy (as Keith [Blackman] Dallas)](/img/avatar-f100/58b21823f5c8e6b6tm147470.jpg)
- Bruce Jamesas Ken
![Keith Dallas as Big Leroy (as Keith [Blackman] Dallas)](/img/avatar-f100/58b21823f5c8e6b6tm147470.webp)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Snakes on a Plane (2006)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Samuel L. Jackson learned of the project in the Hollywood trade newspapers and, after talking to the director, agreed to sign on without reading the script, based on the director, storyline and the title. New Line Cinema did not believe he had actually signed on and had to call his agent to clarify.
- The studio briefly retitled the film Pacific Air Flight 121, but Samuel L. Jackson insisted it be changed back, telling an interviewer the title was the only reason he took the job, and the studio reverted the name to Snakes on a Plane in March 2006.
- New Line Cinema ordered five extra days of reshoots in response to Internet fan buzz, deliberately pushing the film's rating from PG-13 up to R to match the raunchier expectations that had built up online, an unusual case of reshoots being driven by fan hype rather than production trouble.
- Box office analysts now refer to substantial internet discourse that fails to materialise into box office as "the Snakes on a Plane effect", after the online hype around this film.
- Writer David Dalessandro developed the concept in 1992 after reading a nature magazine article about Indonesian brown tree snakes climbing onto planes in cargo during World War II. He first wrote it as Venom, with the one snake loose on a plane, then revised it, crediting Aliens, to "lots of them loose in the fuselage of a plane."
- More than 30 Hollywood studios rejected Dalessandro's third draft of the screenplay in 1995 before New Line Cinema eventually picked it up.
- About two-thirds of the on-screen snakes in the film were animatronic or CGI creations, with the real snakes used mostly limited to non-venomous animals that were never shown attacking anyone.
- More than 450 individual snakes were used during the filming of Snakes on a Plane, together representing 30 different species of snake.
