So, Samuel L. Jackson signs on to do your B movie. Excellent. You’re halfway home. But the script needs more punch. You offer film-industry insider Josh Friedman a chance to work on the script to make it Sam Jax worthy. He passes, but in so doing, he blogs about it. Why? Because of the working title and premise: Snakes on a Plane. Yes, that was correct. Snakes on a Plane. And now the industry starts buzzing. Word gets out. Embarrassed producers change the title to Pacific Air Flight 121. Samuel Jackson makes a public statement. “We’re totally changing that back. That’s the only reason I took the job: I read the title.” In January 2006, Wired names the movie the worst film of 2006, based only on the title and a plot outline. Fast forward to March and the buzz that this stinker has inspired in turn inspires the producers to green light five extra days of shooting. The shooting is required for two reasons. First, producers have decided that they need to push into R-rated territory to fulfill the horror promise of the name. Second, and most astoundingly, the reshoot allegedly added lines that were springing up on the Internet and in fan-made fake trailers, the most famous of which is a line penned for Jackson by an as-yet unknown contributor to CyberSnakePlaneWorld: “I want these motherf***ing snakes off the motherf***ing plane.”

Best movie idea ever. I am so there.

http://www.snakesonaplanemovie.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_on_a_Plane

And if you’re really excited, there’s a contest to get a song on the soundtrack.

http://www.tagworld.com/snakesonaplane

Daniel Turman