FILM · 2004 · USA
Soul Plane
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- #001
Kevin Hart attributes the film's box-office failure to piracy. According to Hart, the film was leaked three months before it opened in theaters. Hart said that during the premiere, fans asked him to sign bootleg copies of the film.
- #002
All scenes featuring Snoop Dogg were shot in five days.
- #003
It was the first film distributed using Eastman Kodak's method of storing the soundtrack on a thin cyan dye layer on the film rather than on a magnetic or optical track.
- #004
The woman in the light blue suit sitting next to John Witherspoon on the plane is his real-life wife, Angela Robinson-Witherspoon.
- #005
The film has two alternate endings: one is Kevin Hart explaining what happened to the characters after the plane lands, and the other, in the unrated director's cut, shows everyone in the plane club dancing in a Soul Train line.
- #006
The set used for the plane had previously been used for the interior plane shots in Lost (2004).
- #007
It was Arielle Kebbel's first feature film.
- #008
The education section of Captain Mack's résumé says he was Citizen of the Week in the 5th grade at Jes Terrero Elementary School. The film is directed by Jessy Terrero.
- #009
According to Esquire Magazine, Dave Chappelle was offered a role.
- #010
The film was parodied in an episode of The Boondocks (2005).
- #011
Snoop Dogg and Terry Crews had previously worked together on Training Day (2001) but had never shared screen time. They also did not share screen time in Starsky & Hutch (2004), but in this film they share a single scene: the one in which Snoop Dogg's character passes out and Terry Crews's character has to drag him out of the cockpit.
- #012
The multiple blue planes shown in the opening title sequence are Southwest Airlines planes recolored in different shades of blue to hide their original blue, orange, yellow and red colors.
- #013
Although D. L. Hughley is mentioned and shown in the film's trailer and appears on the poster, his character Johnny is not one of the film's main characters. He has only three scenes in the entire film, totaling less than five minutes.
- #014
Snoop Dogg and Angell Conwell appeared in Baby Boy (2001) and The Wash (2001).
- #015
Jes Terrero Elementary School, the school listed on Antoine Mack's résumé, is a reference to the film's director, Jessy Terrero.
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