We haven’t done comics in a while. These comics came from the french Snakes on a Plane site, The New British Pope, unknown and Overcompensating.
We’ve seen Overcompensating before, in fact Jeffrey Rowland, the author, is one of those considered to be instrumental in starting the Snakes on a Plane phenomenon. It’s nice to see him sticking with the theme.
All previous Fan Comics.
The french poster has been spotted in the wild. The Defamer was kind enough to provide photographic proof (and the french Snakes on a Plane site has a digital copy of the poster itself):
Two questions, can someone translate the french tagline at the top of the poster on the right, AND has anyone seen any other foreign language posters?
UPDATE: Also, here’s the official french site: http://www.dsda-lefilm.com/.
I’ve had these videos sitting in my inbox forever. I’m trying to do some cleaning, so today they go online:
So You’ve Had It With These Motherfuckin Snakes by Brendon Poe
Pacific Air 121 by Graham Fortin
Lost Snakes on a Plane Low Budget Trailer by treesapp
Snakes on a Starship by Mat
All previous Fan Videos.
Will, otherwise known as stikNstein, has produced two more Snakes related stickdeath animations. He’s prolific. As always, click on the image below to see it animated.
Previous Stickdeath.
Hooray for free shirts. A new shirt arrived in the mail today:
All previous Fan Clothing.
Countdown with Keith Olbermann ran another piece about Snakes on a Plane tonight…
UPDATE posted 6/29/06 at 8:00am: Thanks to noobles we now have a copy of the clip:
MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann
direct link - youtube link
Originally aired 6/28/06
Last week I asked for questions to pose to David Ellis. I forwarded the best off to David Ellis, and today we have our response (it’s long, so I’m going to cut it in two, be sure to follow the link to read the full post):
Snakes on a Blog: How is it that you manage to kick SO MUCH ass? Is it a surplus of free time, or genes?
David Ellis: I love what I do, and that helps keep me going. Also when I was young I was bitten by pure radioactive KICKASS.
SoaB: You weren’t the first director to work on the project, how did you get involved? Did you have any hesitations about signing on to this film? What was most appealing about it?
DE: I got involved when New Line asked me to do it, when Ronnie Yu dropped off. I had just completed Cellular for them at that time. As for hesitations, absolutely, but then I remembered I had bills to pay, and it was a no-brainer. I found the concept really appealing- people trapped in a confined space with crazed snakes on the loose. Who wouldn’t love that?
SoaB: How many people laughed/looked at you with stunned faces when you told them you were directing a movie called Snakes on a Plane?
DE: I lost count long ago.
SoaB: Were you ever embarrassed about it?
DE: Yeah, but thanks to the internet it is now cool to be the director of SOAP.
SoaB: Are you expecting a lot of negative criticism from the critics who are looking for something in this movie OTHER than Snakes on a Plane with Samuel L Jackson? If so, would your response to them be Kiss My Asp?
DE: If they don’t get that the movie is about snakes on a plane, with Samuel L Jackson, I don’t know what to tell them. They can certainly kiss my asp.
This is how you graduate in style:
I have to go fast, but a new trailer is available online.
UPDATE posted 6/29/06 at 1:00am: David Ellis confirmed in his interview that there will be no official, full length trailer. Instead there will be a series of five short trailers that will be released every week or two. Look forward to four more of these.
A few weeks ago I posted a translation of Snakes on a Plane into American Sign Language. Then Will was kind enough to make two stickdeath animations showing the translation in action. Meredith, who actually knows ASL, was kind enough to give us a video of a true ASL translation:
Now can anyone do Klingon?
There’s a mini-war on Comedy Central for the most insertions of Snakes on a Plane references into a fake news show. The Daily Show opened with a quick George Bush impression, followed by two return shots from The Colbert Report. Now The Daily Show has evened things up:
Who’s going to be next?
Does anybody have video of this?
UPDATE 6/26/06 at 11:40am: Got a link from the NYTimes today and it’s hammering my servers. I’ve shortened the length of the front page from 20 stories to 9 to help combat the server stress. I’ll change it back in a few days. Please accept my apologies for temporary service disruptions over the next day. Refreshing a few times should solve all problems.
An article came out a few weeks ago discussing the connections between the pre-marketing of The Blair Witch Project and Snakes on a Plane. In the end it decided that a lot what sparked the fan attention to Snakes on a Plane was a reaction to the contempt that studios feel towards their audience, as evidenced by feeding the audience swill:
Someone will try to come up with another premise and title like this one. But the fans will see through it. They know the difference between a studio’s cynical contempt for them… and phony cynical contempt. There ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby.
I don’t necessarily agree, but it’s not a bad read.
Talking about the novelization of Snakes on a Plane earlier today got me thinking about what an odd experience it must have been to write such a thing. The author of the novelization, Chrisa Faust, has done a number of other novelizations as well as a good deal of her own work AND has agreed to answer a few questions.
What should I ask her?
It’s been pointed out before that there’s a novelization of Snakes on a Plane listed on Amazon. Well, yours truly snagged himself two early copies of the book, set to be released in July (although I’ve heard that some booksellers have already received copies). Here are some pictures of me enjoying it:
Since I didn’t want to ruin the ending, I’m only going to read the first chapter, but I’ve sent the second copy of the book off to CrazyMonk. When he’s not busy working at the Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana, he is going to read it and provide us with a full review detailing literary merit, amount of swearing… stuff like that. He’s pretty smart, so expect refrences to indie music, David Foster Wallace and foreign cinema.
To tide you over until then, here’s the first paragraph from the novel:
Sean Jones was seventeen, handsome and tan with a sturdy surfer’s build and an easy smile. He was born and grew up in Waimea Bay, Oahu and considered himself Hawaiian, nearly native, even though he was about as physically far from a Pacific Islander as he could be. He loved his home island, with all its flaws and all its contradictions. The tourists and pro surfers, cantankerous locals and hippies, tattoo artists, frat boys and hula girls. The beauty and the poverty, the unspoiled natural vistas and the nonstop sleazy human hustle. Lush jungle and bare, unwelcoming rock. Monstrous all-inclusive resorts like walled cities and tumble-down trailers full of single mothers and their naked, unwashed children. Riotous nightlife and serene waterfalls. Pickpockets and poi, orchids and corruption. Everything. Sean couldn’t imagine living anywhere else.
There are two things notably absent from that first paragraph. Otherwise, how does it sound?
Hooray for free shirts. A new shirt arrived in the mail today:
Don’t I look stylish? This shirt comes from MoiraMart.
Also, did you notice that I don’t have the same background anymore? I moved, I’ve had to find a new photo location. This one involves me standing on a bed, it’s rather inconvenient.
All previous Fan Clothing.
ATTENTION MEDIA ENTITIES: I’m not interested in doing press/interviews about this video. Please don’t call.
On Tuesday night I posted a video about my experiences with Comcast. Within 24 hours it had been seen by over 70,000 people (by now its over 200,000) and shown on Countdown on MSNBC (Keith Olbermann made fun of my air conditioner).
On Wednesday evening I received a call from my regional Vice President at Comcast.
On Thursday evening I had a team of Comcast guys (including the head of the technical division in DC) working both outside and inside my home from 7:00pm until midnight. After five hours of work, everything APPEARS to be fully up and working. This crew was extremely professional, efficient and they knew what they were talking about. It was great. If Comcast could provide this level of service for every person experiencing connection issues, they’d be the darling of the industry.
For those of you looking for more information about my technical problem, read on.
Tagworld officially announced the winners of the contest yesterday:
Both of those songs were snakes-related which is good (I was worried Hollywood.mp3 was going to make the cut). They’re both now going to appear on the soundtrack. Congrats.
All previous Fan Songs.
Bruce James plays the effiminate flight attendant Ken and took the time to, well, interview himself:
Ken’s…let’s just say he’s not the most masculine person. Because he’s a male flight attendant it’s easy to play into a stereotype, and I really didn’t want to just be “that guy”. I think he’s much more rounded. Don’t get me wrong though, he’s also a freakin riot. I had a blast playing him, mostly because I adopted the idea that he doesn’t take his job all that seriously, so I WAS having a great time…until all these snakes show up…then Kenny’s incapable nature starts to shine. It was a real challenge to play someone who I KNEW would not be able to handle a situation like this, and force him to try to get through it.
Also, we find out that Samuel L. Jackson does not, in fact, kill the flight attendant. It seems like he restricts his killing to snakes. I suppose that’s ok.
UPDATE: Here’s part 2.
The LA Times ran a story a while ago discussing the man in charge of the snakes in the movie, Jules Sylvester:
For “Snakes on a Plane,” which stars Samuel L. Jackson as an FBI agent escorting a witness on a flight from Hawaii to Los Angeles when assassins release hundreds of deadly snakes, Sylvester drove some 450 snakes from Los Angeles to the Vancouver location — “I think there were 27 different species of snakes,” he says.
But only 60 were used at one time. “You have very controlled areas [on the plane] where you were shooting,” says Sylvester. “We mixed it with computer graphics and animatronic snakes.”
Here’s his webpage.
You thought Stephen Colbert had gotten Snakes on a Plane out of his system. You thought that, but you were wrong. Here’s the Colbert Report’s second reference:
“I am in love with this motherfucking snake.”
It’s a .WMV file, someone will probably post this on YouTube soon, go ahead and post the YouTube link in the comments.
