Last week Snakes on a Plane did five days of reshoots to bring the film’s rating from a PG-13 to an R. I received an email today from someone who worked on the set who gave an interesting description of what went on. It’s got a few borderline spoilers, so I’d recommend not reading it unless you’re willing to have some surprises unveiled:
As you may be well aware, Snakes On A Plane just finished doing some reshoots lastweek at The Lot in Hollywood (a far cry from their original Vancouver set) to bump the movie’s rating from a safe PG-13 to an R. I was on the crew, and I’ll tell you what I know.
Samuel L. Jackson, Kenan Thompson, Nathan Phillips and Bruce James were among the group brought back for reshoots to up the anty in previously filmed scenes and shoot additional ones I think Bruce James was the only one to shoot new scenes they added for him. He is HILARIOUS as the effeminate Ken and it seems like they were trying to give him more screen time. BEGIN SPOILER (Highlight the white space to read the mini-spoiler): Samuel L. Jackson did a lot of swearing and if you’re wondering what his big line is going to be for this movie I think people are right on the money so far in their assumptions. He is awesome. END OF MINI SPOILER.
Otherwise, some things got blown up (snakes???….blowing up??…on a plane??), and everyone was very excited to see some of the CGI scenes which look pretty amazing already and some of them are not even finished yet. On the last day of shooting David Ellis gathered the crew together and played the Best Fan Song from your site into speakers for us all to listen to and a lot of laughter ensued.
Anyways, just thought you’d want to know that he knows about the BLOG. So does New Line. You may not be that far way from that ticket to the premiere as you thought.
Pretty exciting, eh?
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