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"Snakes on a Plane..."WIFE: "Honey while you were on your cholesterol walk you stepped in dog poop dvd again."You get the picture. Now I'm not a big rewrite guy and I do not love the ambulance chasing quality to script doctoring...I have done less than many but more than some and it's been a while since I've been holier than thou about that part of the business.So I get on the phone. It's a conference call and I think maybe three people are on the phone dvd and dvd one's an old friend of mine and she and I do most of the talking. But here's the salient part and it comes early:ME: "Oh my God I just have to say first and foremost that SNAKES ON A PLANE is the single greatest movie title of all time. I'm even using it as a zen koan. You have to promise me if I sign on to rewrite this you will NEVER change the title to something sort of generic and stupid like FLIGHT ONE-TWENTY WHO GIVES A FUCK."AWKWARD SILENCEME: "You're changing the title aren't you?"OLD FRIEND: Well, we were thinking, we need to make it a little scarier, a little more thriller-y, something not so camp..."ME:
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