Samuel Jackson on NPR
Samuel Jackson is doing a publicity tour for Freedomland, and was just interviewed on All Things Considered where he mentioned Snakes On A Plane (at 10:40).
Snakes on a Plane is, uh, pretty much what it sounds like. I wanted to do films sometimes that excited me when I was a kid and I always liked horror and adventure movies, and when I opened the cover on that particular script and it said "Snakes on a Plane" I was immediately viscerally struck with it. Oh yeah. It turned out to be exactly what I thought. Somebody turns loose a big crateload of poisonous snakes on an airplane and we have to fight the snakes until we get to our destination. It's just one of those popcorn kind of moments where you know you're goin' to a movie, you don't have to think about what's happening, you know what's gonna happen. There are going to be snakes loose on this plane, some people are going to get bitten, there's gonna be some victims, and you hope you're a survivor. You just want to have that experience and excite people who are sittin' there watchin' it. People who are afraid of flying and afraid of snakes are going to have like a double-whammy goin' with that. It's kinda going to be great.
By "Kinda going to be great" I'm sure he means "Best movie ever".
Snakes on a Plane is, uh, pretty much what it sounds like. I wanted to do films sometimes that excited me when I was a kid and I always liked horror and adventure movies, and when I opened the cover on that particular script and it said "Snakes on a Plane" I was immediately viscerally struck with it. Oh yeah. It turned out to be exactly what I thought. Somebody turns loose a big crateload of poisonous snakes on an airplane and we have to fight the snakes until we get to our destination. It's just one of those popcorn kind of moments where you know you're goin' to a movie, you don't have to think about what's happening, you know what's gonna happen. There are going to be snakes loose on this plane, some people are going to get bitten, there's gonna be some victims, and you hope you're a survivor. You just want to have that experience and excite people who are sittin' there watchin' it. People who are afraid of flying and afraid of snakes are going to have like a double-whammy goin' with that. It's kinda going to be great.
By "Kinda going to be great" I'm sure he means "Best movie ever".