Surprising fact of the day: Red Bull DID NOT pay for product placement in Snakes on a Plane.
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Hey… we gotta come up with a Rocky-Horror style audience participation script for SoaP. When the surfer guy drinks his Red Bull, yell out “RED BULL GIVES YOU WINGS!”
When Flynn charges into Coach wielding the tazer and shocking snakes, yell “LEEEEROY JENKINS!”
That kind of thing. :-)
I didn’t think so because of the “look at this crap you are feeding us” line and subsequent shot of the empty Red Bull can.
Chris—someone already did, but I like your suggestions better. I wonder if anyone actually USED this??
http://snakeplay.pbwiki.com/script
Brian–how’d you find that out? With it being the co-star of the first 10 minutes of the film, I figured they shelled out a pretty penny? ;-)
Awesome; it’s already being worked on! Soon, enough people will have heard of it that groups of friends will start getting theaters into it.
Perhaps printing 100 copies of that script and leaving them and some snake balloons outside a theater would work!
I shouted “But Red Bull gives you wings!” after the cop says “Look at this crap you are feeding us” when I saw it for the 2nd time.
my friend said that when his sister went to see it, there was a large group of people doing the rocky horror picture thing! she said it was hilarious.
Chirs, your jokes are awful.
If you said any of those in a theatre you would get kicked in the head.
P.S. Leeroy Jenkins is old and stupid, shut up allready.
Yeah, I was a little amazed by how much that kid loves to drink piss…
Hehe you’re lying! I thought that and the treo’s (?) product placement was the most overt since I Robot and The Island. The phone thingy was more purposeful and it actually made me laugh the way the fake Cher held it out.
I’m not lying about Red Bull.
Treo, on the other hand, certainly did have some sort of deal with the movie, which is why they gave me a free one. If you’re curious about the quality of the phone, it’s not very high and I wouldn’t recommend it.
That is interesting because the version I saw, the first 15 minwas a close up of a can of Red Bull.
Wow, I thought FOR sure Red Bull had bought it’s way into the movie. It’s ALL over the place.
Good to know….. good to know.
“When Flynn charges into Coach wielding the tazer and shocking snakes, yell “LEEEEROY JENKINS!””
Chris, you fucking win at life!
“LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROY JEEEEEEEEENKINS!!!”
I just got home from Snakes on a Plane (it just came out in New Zealand) and I sooooo thought that was product placement!
Yeah, I just got back from seeing in New Zealand as well, our audience was laughing at the product placement. Well, this new info sure puts us in our place doesn’t it.
“When Flynn charges into Coach wielding the tazer and shocking snakes, yell “LEEEEROY JENKINS!””
Considering that the “L” in Samuel L. Jackson actually DOES stand for “Leroy”, that might work!
And never mind that other person–Leeroy Jenkins is an Internet legend that will never die. ;-)
We did the script in St. Petersburg opening night. But the showings after that people don’t really want to do it.
Wow Brian good job pimping the Treo, I’m sure more free products will be pouring in from those guys soon!
SPOILERS BELOW
The can of Red Bull was a plot point - the FBI found Sean’s fingerprints on it and therefore knew that he was at the scene. (We’re left to assume that they had Sean’s fingerprints on file because he had, presumably, been previously busted repeatedly for marijuana possession.) They needed a can of SOMETHING for him to be drinking, and Red Bull was probably the type of thing Sean would drink (except perhaps for Mountain Dew). So I’m not that surprised that Red Bull didn’t have product placement.
But yeah when the yuppie girl was like “LOOK AT THIS PHONE IT IS BOTH A CAMERA AND A COMPUTER AND A CELL PHONE” I was like, yeah, that’s product placement there.
Heh well wow….I can’t believe it. I wonder did Red Bull at least provide David Ellis and the crew with free cans during shooting.
Re: the Treo… And where, exactly, are the cell towers in the middle of the Eastern Pacific? Half my theater wanted to know.
It’s a satellite Treo–you know, like the satellite phone in “Jurassic Park 3″. ;-)
“Sean WOULD drink Mountain Dew wouldn’t he!
HILARIOUS!
Comment by reba mac — August 24, 2006 @ 5:59 pm”
In some later scene, some snake hissses at a rolling can of mountain dew… so you never know…

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