Release Date: August 18, 2006 Studio: New Line Cinema Director: David Ellis Screenwriter: John Heffernan, David Loucka Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Nathan Phillips, Byron Lawson, Julianna Margulies, Rachel Blanchard, Bobby Cannavale, Kenan Thompson, David Koechner MPAA Rating: R (for language, a scene of sexuality and drug use, and intense sequences of terror and violence) Official Website:SnakesonaPlane.com | MySpace.com/SnakesonaPlane
Plot Summary: Samuel L. Jackson stars in the intense action feature "Snakes on a Plane" from director David Ellis ("Final Destination 2," "Cellular"). Jackson plays an FBI agent who is escorting a witness on a flight from Hawaii to Los Angeles when an assassin releases hundreds of deadly snakes on a commercial airplane in order to eliminate the witness. The FBI agent, along with a rookie pilot, frightened crew and passengers must then band together in a desperate attempt to survive.