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OLBERMANN: The movie was called “Plan Nine from Outer Space.” There were flying saucers, zombies, graveyards, police, and Bela Lugosi, for a while anyway, until he died during filming and his remaining scenes were played by the director‘s chiropractor. The film was so bad, it was good. The acting was so bad that one of the guys playing the cops, Paul Marko, is described as the John Gielgud of bad movies.

In our number one story on the COUNTDOWN, move over Paul Marko. Samuel L. Jackson may be on the eve of a kind of movie immortality not even the McDonald‘s dialogue in “Pulp Fiction” could begin to hint at. A movie called “Snakes on a Plane.” There are snakes, planes, and Samuel L. Jackson. And months before the film is to be released, it‘s as much of a cult classic as “Plan Nine from Outer Space” ever was.

COUNTDOWN‘s senior reptilian aviation correspondent Monica Novotny joins us now with the details. Good evening, Monica.

MONICA NOVOTNY, MSNBC CORRESPONDENT: Keith, good evening. No one has seen this movie yet. In fact the director is working with editors to complete it as we speak. But fans already love it, just for the name “Snakes on a Plane.” In fact, Samuel L. Jackson says he didn‘t bother to read the script. He took one look at the title and said “I‘m there.”

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SAMUEL L. JACKSON, ACTOR: Enough is enough. I‘ve had it with these snakes.

NOVOTNY (voice-over): The most talked about movie this spring—not playing in a theatre near you. Yet. “Snakes on a Plane.” A cult hit starring Samuel L. Jackson that‘s not even finished. Though New Line Studios has released a trailer online. Inspiring a Web fan base thousands strong, still four months away from its planned August release. All thanks to that name.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Based purely on the title I‘ve never seen anything like this.

NOVOTNY: The epicenter of the Internet action, snakesonablog.com, written by Georgetown University Law student Brian F.

BRIAN F., SNAKESONABLOG.COM: You know exactly what you‘re going to get when you go to see this movie. It‘s going to have snakes. They are going to be on a plane. There‘s probably going to be some biting.

NOVOTNY: The 26-year-old‘s blog now getting some 10,000 hits a day. Prompting readers to send in their own posters. Mock trailers. Even their own renditions of what auditions for the film could have been like.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You want to kill those snakes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There are snakes on the plane.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don‘t know what kind of airline you‘re running here. But you got a reptile problem.

NOVOTNY: New Line, the studio releasing the film is well aware of the online drama.

BRIAN: They endorse it. They are very supportive of it. They understand how important it is to the movie.

NOVOTNY: Hoping to turn this Web hit into a box office blockbuster, new scenes were recently shot, to get the film to an R rating and a larger audience.

DEVIN GORDON, “NEWSWEEK”: Samuel L. Jackson is famous for uttering a certain 12-letter swear word in almost all of his movies. And fans started joking about that line. And they actually did inject that line into the script.

NOVOTNY: But Critics say “Snakes” could follow in the tracks of “Waterworld” .

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If I let you out of here you‘re taking us with you.

KEVIN COSTNER, ACTOR: Sure.

NOVOTNY: Or “Showgirls.”

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You could sit a little closer if you want. It was a bad idea.

NOVOTNY: Films so bad they‘re good.

GORDON: I doubt very highly whether or not people are really all that excited about the movie. I think that they just see this as kind of a joke. And see it as sort of a joke on Hollywood, too. Sort of a how low can they go, what will they think of next?

BRIAN: Snakes on a submarine maybe.

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NOVOTNY: New Line is getting in on the Internet action, as well. They are hosting an online song contest. Anyone can create and submit a song, any style, any genre, the winning tune will be featured in the film.

OLBERMANN: Snakes, snakes on a plane, I‘ve got some snakes on a plane

But isn‘t the timing on this all wrong? This is late August it‘s coming out, right?

NOVOTNY: Right.

OLBERMANN: The drag time is weak?

NOVOTNY: That‘s sort of the problem. There is speculation now about that. Because New Line would not speak us to on camera about this. They are very excited about the Internet buzz. But the speculation among critics is that they are afraid to come out and talk about it too soon. Because like us, who is going to do the story again in August when it actually comes out?

OLBERMANN: Unless they release that song. Have you written one?

NOVOTNY: I thought you were going to write one.

OLBERMANN: I just did. We just need like six more words, we‘ve got

the song the way songs are today. Work on these six other words. Snakes

on a plane, snakes on a plane, we‘ve got some snakes on a plane

NOVOTNY: We‘ve got some bleep snakes on a plane.

OLBERMANN: Glad you‘re able to put the class part in. COUNTDOWN‘s Monica Novotny is now working on an investigative piece on the movie “Heaven‘s Gate” which she‘ll be renting and watching tonight. Did you enjoy that?

NOVOTNY: Yes. Much.

OLBERMANN: Thanks. That‘s COUNTDOWN for this, the 1,069^th day since the declaration of “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq. I‘m Keith Olbermann. Keep your knees loose, especially if there are snakes on your plane.

Good night and good luck. Ah, see, wait for it ‘til I throw it. Our MNSBC coverage continues now with RITA COSBY, LIVE & DIRECT. Good evening, Rita.

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