Fan Videos from around the web:

Snakes on a Porch

Snakes on a Plane trailer

Snakes in a Can

Snakes on a Plane Rap

Another Snakes on a Plane Rap

All previous Fan Videos.

Fueled by Ramen has posted a brief listing of the “Ehanced Content” to appear on the Snakes on a Plane soundtrack:

• Snakes On A Plane (Bring It) (Music Video) by Cobra Starship
• Early Auditions (Video) by Dave Coyne
• Snakes On A Plane (Shake off the Snakes) (Music Video) by Rob Liscombe
• Snakes On The Brain by Captain Ahab
• Here Come The Snakes (Seeing Is Believing) by Louden Swain

It’s nice to see that all of this is going to be on the soundtrack, it’s a nice collection of fan work.

All previous Fan Songs and Fan Videos.

So, it took me a while to put these online and get a link up to the them. I apologize for the delay. Here are the remaining interviews from Comic-Con:

Samuel L. Jackson interviewed by SnakesonaBlog.com
Kenan Thompson interviewed by SnakesonaBlog.com	Jule Sylvester interviewed by SnakesonaBlog.com	David Ellis interviewed by SnakesonaBlog.com
Samuel L. Jackson interviewed by Blogger Roundtable	Jules Sylvester interviewed by Blogger Roundtable	David Ellis interviewed by Blogger Roundtable

You’ve seen some of these before (specifically the second row) but I thought it would be nice to have them all located in one location for easy viewing. The sound is a little bit low on the Jules Sylvester roundtable interview, we were trying to be quiet while Samuel L. Jackson was being interviewed by another media organization. I haven’t been able to find the time to write up transcripts of these interviews yet… if someone is feeling industrious, and would like to make transcripts, I’d appreciate it.

All previous Fan Interviews.

We’ve already seen a couple iterartions of Snakes on a Plane safety cards (one made by a fan, one made by New Line), but this one by Derek is really impressive:

Also, I’ve gotten a lot of emails over the last few days and weeks with things for me to post.   Alas, I’ve been falling behind.  If you’ve sent me something and I haven’t responded, feel free to send it again if you want, but I’ll probably get to it.  I have a big file of things to put online… I’m trying to get to everything, I swear.

All previous Fan Art.

It started in English, turned into French and then became Spanish.

The Boston Globe ran a piece about a podcast about a real snake on a plane (I guess they were starved for news):

So forget the movie, and head over to pilot Joe d’Eon ’s website, Fly With Me. (Use a search engine and find the podcast Fly With Me Episode 12.) What you’ll hear is a flight attendant telling the story of what looked like a non poisonous snake that showed up between the windowpane and fuselage of a L-1011. The flight was full, so the captain asked the passengers if they wanted to be delayed forever while the plane was taken apart, or whether they wanted to fly. They opted to fly, and when the plane landed . . . the snake was gone.

I won’t spoil the story, but let’s just say when the plane took off the next time, the passengers weren’t told about the snake, which had disappeared. Or had it? So yes, there can be snakes on a plane, and they can be scary.

Without Monty Coles, this just isn’t a real story.

Tickets are now on sale for Snakes on a Plane on both MovieFone and Fandango.

Fark beat me to the punch on organizing groups to go to the film, however, if you’re interested in going as a group with other Snakes on a Blog readers, you can either discuss your plans in the comments to this post, or even better, post your city on the forum and link up with other locals.

Matt previously gave us the pictures of the Kindergartners as well as the recent Snakes on  a Home Birth video, and he’s back with a little bit more.  One of his students is apparently a talented singer/songwriter/armpit fart artist.  I’m not really sure how else to introduce this one:

Jack sings SOAP and plays the armpit fart

All previous Fan Songs.

We’ve already seen two official poster releases (not counting French posters), now it seems like New Line has put out two more. The first I saw for the first time at Comic-Con and recently saw up at local movie theater. The second I haven’t seen anywhere in real life, but it’s apparently out on the streets:

For those of you looking for a more detailed shot of the images in the first poster, try this. And here’s a few shots of billboards and huge posters that have sprouted up in Times Square. I guess New Line has officially moved into doing it’s own marketing for the movie.

Crazy Aunt Purl has a funny story about being pulled over by the police for failing to stop at a red light and responding to the police with, well, Snakes on a Plane:

Law: Can I see your license and registration please?

Me: (whimper)

Law: Miss Lastname, did you not see the large, red stop sign that tells cars to stop?

Me: Yes, I know. I am SO SNAKES ON A PLANE.

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Law: YOU DID NOT JUST SAY SNAKES ON A PLANE!

Me: (whimper)

Law: “I am tired of these blanketyblank snakes on this blanketyblank airplane!”

Me: SNAKES ON A PLANE!!!!!

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I wonder if this sort of thing would work EVERY time you got pulled over? If I had a car, I’d try it out.

Amazon lets users make guides about certain topics to educate and direct the uninformed. You could make one about Harry Potter, or rock-climbing… probably about anything. Christopher Locke managed to put together a special one:

So you’d like to… get those mothafvckin snakes off that mothafvckin plane!

The inclusion of the chain-saw on the list is inspired.

Back in April there was a guy claiming he would get a Snakes on a Plane tattoo if enough money was raised. Well, nobody cared enough to pay for him to get the tattoo (plus, if you need to be paid, then you aren’t a true fan). We all knew that someday someone would care enough to do it just for the love of the thing. Well, that day has arrived:

Doz deserves a real Snakes on a Plane style salute (although I don’t know what that would be). He even got a write-up about the tattoo in Giant Magazine, whatever that might be.

The official Snakes on a Plane website has been running an official contest to determine the biggest fan. Now, the contest has been going on for a while, so there’s already a number of front-runners, but for those of you interested in winning, post your name and links to your username in the comments below and explain why we should vote for you. The winner gets a free screening of the film, but runners-up also get free posters, shirts, hats and soundtracks.

I decided to stay out of this one, I hopefully won’t need a contest-provided screening.

I’m trying to push things out of my mailbox, so here’s another tidbit. Somebody a while ago asked me about when they could see the movie in Spain (it wasn’t listed on IMDB). I asked the people at New Line who got me this list of international release dates. For those of you in Croatia and Lebanon, you now know when you can expect to see the Snakes on a Plane:

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Newsrama is running a two part, long interview with Snakes on a Plane writer John Heffernan: Part 1 and Part 2.  They call him John HefferMan, but let’s not hold a grudge, ok?  Actually, I was supposed to send him some questions after he wrote the lengthy description of how he got involved with the film but I got distracted and never got around to it.  Oh well, I suppose the Newsrama interview pretty much covers anything I would have asked.  It’s my own fault for being slow.  Damn real-life responsibilites.

Ann was kind enough to create the first Snakes on a Plane based logic puzzle. Here’s the setup:

Pacific Air Flight 121 is in trouble! Some motherfucker has released snakes on the motherfucking plane! Needless to say, the passengers are terrified, but there’s good news! Samuel L. Jackson, that badass motherfucker, is on the flight! Six of the passengers–Barbara, Cindy, George, Mike, Ralph, and Tina–had particularly harrowing encounters with venomous snakes (a black mamba, a boomslang, an taipan, a gaboon viper, a king cobra, and a rattlesnake), but Samuel saved them all from certain death (he strangled one snake with his bare hands). Can you figure out what type of snake each person encountered and how Samuel took it out?

The rest of the information needed to solve the puzzle can be found on the site.  Who can solve it first?

I’m going to slowly get these interviews online. Here are my one-on-one interviews with Jules Sylvester (the snake wrangler) and David Ellis. These were recorded by a professional videographer, so they probably look better than my Kenan Thompson interview. I’ll try to get transcripts for all of these online at some point, but for now, here’s this:

David Ellis (Director)

Jules Sylvester (Snake Wrangler)

All previous Fan Interviews.

I arrived home from Comic-Con last night, and I still have a bunch of videos to post but I’ll be getting to those over the next few days. If you haven’t done so already, check out IGN’s streaming video of the fantastic Q&A (featuring questions submitted to this site as asked by Kenan Thompson) or this non-streaming quicktime version. Also, Crazymonk joined me at some of the events, you can check out his coverage of Comic-Con.

However, to pass the time until I get the new videos online, if you’re in the mood for something completely COMPLETELY different, you can check out the following video. It takes the Snakes on a Plane phenomenom in directions that nobody could have anticipated. Seriously, nobody:

Snakes on a Home Birth

Today was my big day at Comic-Con. Here’s what I did:

• Interviewed Sam Jackson 1 on 1.
• Interviewed Sam Jackson at a blogger roundtable.
• Interviewed the Snake Wrangler 1 on 1.
• Interviewed the Snake Wrangler at a blogger roundtable.
• Interviewed David Ellis 1 on 1.
• Interviewed David Ellis at a blogger roundtable.
• Interviewed Kenan Thompson 1 on 1.
• Attended the Snakes on a Plane presentation.

The interviews all went pretty well, I barely started crying at all. I’ll be posting video for most of them next week, but I have one of the videos right now: my 1 on 1 with Kenan Thompson. It’s 10 minutes long and covers a lot of fan-submitted questions. Highlights include Kenan’s impression of Bill Cosby encountering Snakes on a Plane and a rapper who meanders in and hands Kenan a postcard. I’ll get a transcript up next week:

Kenan Thompson talks about Snakes on a Plane

New Line’s presentation was interesting… after a few non-SoaP related presentations (which the crowd was generally NOT into) we got to the meat of the presentation. There’s lenghty coverage at AICN and I feel loathe to retype it. Go here and read their full review of the evening.

Here’s the short version: New Line opened with a few minutes with Jules the snake wrangler followed by a few minutes with David Ellis. This was good, but then they moved into a full 10 minutes of film. This was not an extended trailer but a 10 minute chunk from the center of the film. There were snakes, there was swearing, there was snake whipping, there was bite after bite after bite… it was good.

Following the 10 minutes of film Samuel L. Jackson entered in the dark yelling his infamous line. The crowd went crazy. He sat down with Kenan Thompson, Jules the snake wrangler, and David Ellis for the best Q&A I’ve ever heard. It was hysterical the full way through. IGN is supposed to post a video of the Q&A, but I can’t find it on their site. Let me know if you find it anywhere?

I’ve been asked not to post the 10 minute clip from the film. Sigh.

UPDATED at 6:27pm - The video is now working.

Ok, today a group of about ten bloggers including myself, SnakesOnStuff and others were invited to take an ealry look at the Snakes on a Plane booth at Comic-Con. We got in there a few hours before the hoards arrived, here are my pictures:

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