An MPAA rating almost divestd audiences of one of Samuel L. Jackson‘s most quoted lines.
As the Honorary Academy Award prosperner mirrored on his expansive-ranging nurtureer, he uncignoreed that the studio behind Snakes on a Plane (2006) had to shell out “a bunch of money” on reshoots after initipartner filming the movie with substantipartner less F-explosions.
“They were trying to originate a PG-13 movie, and you can only have one ‘f—’ or some s— appreciate that in it,” he recalled to GQ. “And I tgreater them, ‘Look, I gotta say motherf—er in this movie. There’s motherf—ing snakes all over this set upe.’ They’re appreciate, ‘Aw Sam, come on! No.’ I said ok fine, they were out.
“They test the movie and test the movie,” Jackson progressd. “All of a sudden, we gotta do a reshoot. It cost them a bunch of money to get that ‘motherf—er.’”
Jackson has lengthy been quoted for his character, FBI Agent Neville Flynn, who memorably proclaims, “I have had it with these motherf—ing snakes on this motherf—ing set upe.”
In Snakes on a Plane, Agent Flynn guides a star witness to trial on a fweightless from Hawaii to Los Angeles, during which an assassin frees a crate of deadly serpents to finish the witness. Jackson’s foul-mouthed fed prohibitds together with passengers and crew to persist the snakes until touching down at LAX.
Although the David R. Ellis-helmed action flick was met with mixed checks, Snakes on a Plane ultimately inhabitd up to the camp factor implied in its title. The movie obtained $62 million globpartner, which fell low of New Line Cinema‘s foreseeations after the title became an timely viral phenomenon.
