Harris contacts Flynn, telling him that antivenom will be ready for the passengers when they land. Price injects the injured dealer with the antivenom and commandeers his supply of antivenom for the victims on the plane based on the list given to him, while Harris gives orders to have Eddie Kim arrested and tried for death on multiple counts of murder and attempted murder. With Harris withholding the antivenom, the dealer finally reveals that Kim hired him to obtain the snakes and adds how the latter managed to smuggle them on board the plane and make them aggressive. After a shootout, a tactical interrogation occurs wherein the dealer is injured by a snakebite. Steven Price, Customs' main source for animal smuggling cases.īased on pictures of the reptiles emailed to him via a passenger's mobile phone, Price believes a Los Angeles snake dealer known for illegally importing exotic and highly dangerous snakes to be responsible. Flynn contacts FBI Special Agent Hank Harris on the ground, who gets in touch with ophiologist Dr. Flynn and flight attendant Claire regain control of the plane while Rick retakes the controls and has Flynn go into the cargo hold to restore the air conditioning/ventilation system. The passengers flee to the upstairs first class cabin before blocking the stairwell with an inflatable life raft. Rick is attacked and the plane starts to dip downwards, causing a food trolley to crash through the luggage blockade. The surviving passengers, who have made their way to the front of the plane, put up blockades of luggage in a desperate attempt to stop the snakes. Numerous passengers, including Agent Sanders, are killed when the snakes invade the cabin. Some of the snakes attack Rick, and while fending them off he accidentally releases the oxygen masks throughout the plane, causing most of the snakes to drop into the cabin with them. Co-pilot Rick, unaware of the snakes, believes Sam has suffered a heart attack and continues toward LAX.
The plane's captain, Sam McKeon, investigates the power outage and fixes an electrical short, but is killed by the viper that caused it. A couple having sex in a bathroom and a man using another bathroom are the first people killed. The crate opens midway through the flight and the snakes make their way through the cabin, with a viper attacking an electric panel in the process, thus shutting down the power. To ensure the snakes indiscriminately attack everybody without the need for provocation, he has one of his henchmen disguised as an airport ground employee spray the passengers' leis with a special pheromone which makes the snakes highly aggressive. Kim arranges for a time-release crate full of venomous snakes to be placed in the cargo hold in an attempt to bring down the plane before it reaches Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
The film grossed US$62 million worldwide before its release on home video on January 2, 2007.Īfter witnessing a brutal murder ordered by gang boss Eddie Kim on prosecutor Daniel Hayes in Hawaii, Sean Jones is escorted by FBI agents Neville Flynn and John Sanders on a Boeing 747-400 to testify in a trial against Kim in Los Angeles. Despite the immense Internet buzz, the film's gross revenue did not live up to expectations it earned US$15.25 million in its opening weekend. Released in the United States and United Kingdom on August 18, 2006, the film received mixed reviews and was a "box office disappointment".
Before and after the film was released, it was parodied and alluded to on television shows and films, fan-made videos, video games, and various forms of literature. In response to the Internet fan base, New Line Cinema incorporated feedback from online users into its production, and added five days of reshooting. The film gained a considerable amount of attention before its release, forming large fanbases online and becoming an Internet phenomenon, due to the film's title, casting, and premise. The film was written by David Dalessandro, John Heffernan, and Sebastian Gutierrez and follows the events of dozens of venomous snakes being released on a passenger plane in an attempt to kill a trial witness. It was released by New Line Cinema on August 18, 2006, in North America. Snakes on a Plane is a 2006 American action film directed by David R.