Samuel L. Jackson, Snakes Ready To Fight

He's been a gangster and a hit man, a distraught father and a disgraced police officer, a scientist and a Jedi.

In his latest role, Samuel L. Jackson is a snake-killer.

Jackson stars in one of the summer's most anticipated movies, the title-says-it-all thriller "Snakes on a Plane."

He helped promote the movie last month at the country's biggest comic book convention, Comic-Con, by wearing an albino Burmese python around his neck. It's the closest he came to his slithery screen companions (agent's orders, he says). Still, Jackson was as cool as Jules Winnfield, the scripture-spouting hit man he played in 1994's "Pulp Fiction" that earned him an Academy Award n...