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Jackson demands comedy title

Tue 04 Jul 8:00 AM

Samuel L Jackson came close to pulling out of new film when he learned the bosses planned to scrap it's comical name.

The Pulp Fiction star signed up to star in the movie on the strength of its name, Snakes On A Plane, and was annoyed when he heard the production company wanted to change it to the somewhat less hilarious Pacific Air Flight 121.

Jackson was concerned that the movie would lose the cult following it had built up on the internet. "I got on the set one day and heard they changed it," he's quoted by Contact Music as saying. "I said, 'What are you doing here? It's not Gone With The Wind. It's not On The Waterfront. It's Snakes On A Plane." It appears that the producers eventually agreed.

The unambiguously-titled film follows an assassin's attempts to kill a plane passenger by unleashing a crate of deadly snakes.