MORE SNAKES! MORE PLANE!: Hee hee hee.

…”Who wants to be in a movie called ‘Snakes on a Plane’?” asked one talent agent at the time, seeming to echo the studio’s concerns.

But once production began, a funny thing happened. Movie fans began noticing the black sheep of the New Line slate. They seized upon the title and created fan sites, blogs, T-shirts, poems, fiction and songs. The title itself, sometimes abbreviated as “SoaP,” has emerged as Internet-speak for fatalistic sentiments that range from c’est la vie to “s— happens.”

“The title is so clear and so straightforward,” said Brian Finkelstein, a Washington, D.C., native who created the blog http://www.Snakesonablog.com and who hopes to score tickets to the movie’s premiere. “You know exactly what you’re going to get.”

Like Harry Potter, whose first suggestion that he’s got magic on his hands comes when he discovers he can talk to snakes in their language, New Line got the message. Deciding that so many anonymous fans couldn’t be wrong, the studio decided to revert to the movie’s original title.

Jackson publicly endorsed the move. “That’s the only reason I took the job: I read the title,” Jackson told entertainment site http://www.Collider.com. He added, “You either want to see that, or you don’t.”

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via Ratty.