I’m annoyed.

As part of my quest to attend the Snakes on a Plane premiere, I’ve been in touch with a few people involved with the film. Just yesterday I’d heard from enough different people that scenes with Samuel L. Jackson were being reshot to bring the movie up from a PG-13 to a solid R. I was going to post it online today. It was going to be a scoop. I was going to get to wear one of those “PRESS” hats like Drudge.

Alas, it looks like I wasn’t the only person who knew. The Boston Globe today published an interview with Samuel L. Jackson in which he reveals the same piece of information:

A voracious reader, Jackson goes through up to seven scripts a week, always relying on his innercineaste and fanboy to help him choose his roles. He’s a lover of all projects gory and unusual, so the upcoming ”Snakes on a Plane” was a no-brainer.

”As soon as I opened the script and saw the title, I was like, ‘Cool!’ Hopefully that’s not a euphemism for something else,” says Jackson with a laugh. ”And sure enough, I go there and there’s 500 snakes on a plane. Can you believe they were going to change the name to ‘Pacific Air 121′? What is that?

”Next week, I’m going to shoot some additional footage to amp up the snakedom. Why go PG when you can be R?” asks Jackson.

As a friend of mine mentioned, it looks as though the response from the internet is having a hand in shaping the film. Based on the language people online are using, they’re clearly looking for an ‘R’ rating, and now, thanks to all the early buzz, that’s exactly what we’re going to get. God bless the Internet.

Side note: I might want to see the movie where Snakes on a Plane is a euphamism for something.

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