While star Samuel L. Jackson might beg to differ, Snakes on a Plane
does in fact have a script, and its writer is busy lining his to-do
calendar with other projects, trying to capitalize on the movie’s
surging, blogosphere appeal in advance of its no-screenings-for-critics release.

“I’m working on a project called Just a Pilgrim,” screenwriter John Heffernan says in an exclusive interview, “which is sort of a post-apocalyptic adventure movie in the vein of The Road Warrior,
and this is through Bill Block… who used to run Artisan, and created,
in their finance wing, QED International. We’re working right now with
financiers and distributors to get this for me to write and direct it.
It’s actually an adaptation of a comic book by Garth Ennis.”

“And I’m also working on a horror film that takes place back in my home state of Connecticut, called Seaside Regional,”
Heffernan continues. “That, and I’m fielding offers from many other
different studios that want me to do some writing and re-writing —
script doctoring and various other things.”

And as for the buzz surrounding the movie and talk of a sequel, something Jackson has already enthusiastically talked about on The Daily Show
and elsewhere in the press? “I think it really could happen,” Heffernan
agrees. “But the movie is sort of so unique, and takes so many chances,
that for me the sequel would have to be equally so. It would probably
have to be not what you’re expecting. The easy thing to think would be
to do, OK, Spiders in a Subway or something like that, but for
me I would want the sequel to of course bring Sam back. I don’t know if
it would have snakes, I don’t know if it would have a plane, but I do
know that it would be a very cool, unique, fun wild ride, and I’d be
looking forward to writing it, whatever it might be.”