Air America - videos, teasers and stills from filming

All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "Air America"

Air America (1990)

Timing: 1:52 (112 min)

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Air America Trailer

English

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Robert Downey Jr. decided to star in the film for two reasons: because of the promised substantial fee and the opportunity to work with Mel Gibson, whom he had seen a year earlier in Richard Donner's detective film «Lethal Weapon 2» (1989).
Robert Downey Jr. performed the scene where his character flies under a helicopter, holding onto a rope, himself after director Roger Spottiswoode refused to use composite shots.
PepsiCo management wanted the filmmakers to use a fictional soda brand instead of showing opium being processed at their abandoned factory. As a result, the line “I wonder if Pepsi knows what’s going on here?” was added to the scene.
26 aircraft were chartered from the Thai army for filming the movie.
Filming took place from October 3, 1989, to February 10, 1990.
Robert Downey Jr. decided to star in the film for two reasons: due to the promised substantial fee and the opportunity to work with Mel Gibson, whom he had seen a year earlier in Richard Donner’s detective film “Lethal Weapon 2” (1989).

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