Jackson's Snake Film Creates a Huge Buzz

Jackson's Snake Film Creates a Huge Buzz

By WENN| Friday, March 24, 2006

HOLLYWOOD - Samuel L. Jackson's new mile-high thriller Snakes on a Plane has created such a buzz among Internet film fans, movie bosses have called for reshoots--to give the film a tougher rating.

The film, which stars Jackson as an FBI agent trying to keep a federal witness alive onboard a plane full of snakes, wrapped last September--but went back before the cameras earlier this month for five days of additional shooting.

Film bosses at distributor New Line Cinema opted to add new scenes to the film to take the movie from PG-13 into R-rated territory, according to industry magazine The Hollywood Reporter.

They claim the second round of filming became necessary after intense and growing fan interest in the film, which is scheduled to be released this summer.

Among the reported additions to the film is a foul-mouthed rant from Jackson in which his agent character bellows, "I want these ************* snakes off the ************* plane!" The line is expected to take on cult status.

The filmmakers have reportedly added more gore, more deaths, more nudity and more snakes to the finished product.