Snakes on a Plane: Official Trailer

The official trailer for Snakes on a Plane is below. Scroll down, click play, please remain seated and keep your seatbelt fastened until the absurdity has come to a complete and final stop.

Blimey. That was it then. Our first real look at it. At last.

This whole Snakes on a Plane online kerfuffle really seems more like an appendix to Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point than it does real life. Real life isn't this silly, is it?

Okay, alright. I guess it is.

Reports are surfacing, primarily through one Snake/Plane obsessed blog, that reshoots on the film have taken place. It's alleged that these were designed to deliberately bump Snakes on a Plane up from a PG-13 rating to an R rating. This must be a first - but it's really only one step away from the marketing of "Unrated Extended Cuts" on DVD, creating the illusion of a more "explicit" product.

The story goes on to claim that one purpose of these reshoots was to give Samuel L. Jackson the line "Snakes on a motherfu***ng plane" - an as-to-then "fictional" line of dialogue (if you see what I mean) that the internet had been absolutely buzzing with. It seems that the geekworld's desperation for Sam to deliver the line was enough to bring it into being. Fine by me, it'll probably be hilarious.

Jackson himself commented that the selling point of this project to him was the title. Hardly a glowing recommendation of the script and director - but then again, what a title.

Snakes on a Plane has been directed by David R. Ellis, a one time Wachowski crony. Ronny Yu was originally attached, and we can now only dream of the mini-masterpiece that he could have made from this material. We could hope for a sequel, I suppose - but what on Earth could they call it?