Numerous passengers, the pilot, and Agent Sanders are killed. The crate opens midway through the flight, and the snakes make their way throughout the cabin due to a tampered access hatch. The flight crew includes Claire Miller (Julianna Margulies) who is leaving after the flight to become a lawyer Grace (Lin Shaye), a senior attendant Ken (Bruce James), a flamboyant crew member who displays effeminate behaviour and Tiffany (Sunny Mabrey), a young, attractive attendant who flirts with Sean. The passengers include health-obsessed rapper 3Gs (Flex Alexander), with his two bodyguards Troy and Big Leroy (Kenan Thompson and Keith Dallas) a rich girl Mercedes (Rachel Blanchard) with her dog, Mary Kate a Latin woman (Elsa Pataky) named Maria traveling with her baby two young boys, Curtis and Tommy Brown, who are traveling by themselves for the first time Chen Leong (Terry Chen), a kickboxer, Tyler (Tygh Runyan) who has a phobia of flying and is returning from his honeymoon with wife Ashley (Emily Holmes) and Paul (Gerard Plunkett), a British businessman who is unhappy with being moved from first-class to coach (all the first-class passengers have moved back this way so that the agents can have the section to themselves to guarantee Sean's safety).
Most of the supporting passengers and crew members are introduced at this point. The leis given to the passengers by airport staff upon their departure had been secretly sprayed with pheromones to make the snakes more aggressive in an attempt to bring down the plane before it reaches its destination. Despite increased security for the flight, Kim arranges for time-release crates full of venomous snakes to be placed in the cargo hold of the plane, a Boeing 747-400 (although the interior used features spiral stairs, typically found in the 747-100 and 747-200 models), on which Jones will be flying from Honolulu to Los Angeles. Jackson) and John Sanders (Mark Houghton) to testify in a highly-publicized case in Los Angeles. Spoiler warning: The following contains plot details aboutĪfter witnessing the brutal murder of a prosecutor by gangster Eddie Kim (Byron Lawson) and his band of thugs, Sean Jones (Nathan Phillips) is escorted by FBI agents Neville Flynn (Samuel L. However, about 450 live snakes representing about 25 different species were used, including corn snakes, mangrove snakes, milk snakes, rattlesnakes and king snakes. About two-thirds of the snakes seen in the movie were either animatronic or computer generated. Jackson, who had previously worked with Yu on The 51st State, read about the announced project in the Hollywood trade newspapers and, after talking to Yu, agreed to sign on without reading the script based on the director, storyline and allegedly the title. Originally, the film had Hong Kong action director Ronny Yu at the helm. They put it on a shelf." However, in 1999, a producer for MTV/Paramount followed up before New Line took over. He lamented, "My big foray into Hollywood. "I read about the Indonesian brown tree snake climbing onto planes in cargo during World War II." He originally wrote the screenplay about the brown tree snake loose on a plane and called it "Venom." He soon revised it to be about poisonous snakes, and then-crediting the film Alien-revised it again to include "lots of them loose in the fuselage of a plane."ĭalessandro's third draft of "Venom" was turned down by all 30 Hollywood studios in 1995. The storyline of the film is credited to David Dalessandro, a University of Pittsburgh administrator and first-time Hollywood writer, who received the idea in 1992 from a nature magazine.
The film wrapped up principal photography in September 2005, but after anticipation of the upcoming film grew to unexpected levels, the studio later ordered five days of additional re-shooting to raise the MPAA rating from a PG-13 to an R. The film has been rated R by the MPAA, 15 by the BBFC and 14A by the CHVRS, due to its content of coarse language, a scene of sexuality and drug use, and intense sequences of terror and violence.ĭue to its considerable Internet fan base, New Line Cinema incorporated feedback from online users into its production. Ellis-helmed film was created by David Dalessandro and written by Dalessandro, John Heffernan, and Sheldon Turner. It was released by New Line Cinema on Augin North America.
Snakes on a Plane is a high concept horror-thriller feature film starring Samuel L.