Liquid Generation has a video interview up with director David Ellis. It took me about a million years to get through their annoying loading process, but you get a lot of information when you finally get to the video. For example:
- The snakes are extra angry because they bad guys have released “pheromones” in the air system.
- The snakes are NOT a metaphor for muslim extremists.
- They occasionally “lost” snakes while shooting and had to do counts after scenes to prevent this.
- Soul Plane “had a bunch of black people and they had no snakes,” which was the problem with that film.
- “First Class or Snake Class” would have been a good alternate title.
David Ellis then goes on to direct his own Fan Video version of the film using action figures, a paper airplane, and a bunch of snakes. It’s pretty amusing. It’s nice to see people involved with the film having a good time with it.
Here’s a few screenshots from the video:
They’ve also posted an extended transcript of the interview which goes into much more detail than the video. I haven’t read it yet.
PS. I’m officially in law school finals mode now. I turned down a live TV interview request today and I may be slow in getting things online for the next few weeks. If you email me and I don’t write back, or don’t post something online quickly, this is why. I’ll do my best, but no promises. I’ll catch up once school is over, but you’ll need to cut me a little bit of slack for the month of May.
All previous Fan Video.

Pheremones? This keeps getting better and better!