Flight

Flight (2012)

Timing: 2:18 (138 min)

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Release date

2012-02-22

Country

United States

Production

Paramount, ImageMovers, Parkes+MacDonald Image Nation

Genre

Drama

Budget

$31 000 000

Revenue

$161 772 575

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Director

Robert Zemeckis

Actors

Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly, John Goodman, Bruce Greenwood, Brian Geraghty, Tamara Tunie, Nadine Velazquez, Peter Gerety, Garcelle Beauvais
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Scenario

John Gatins

Producer

Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey, Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, Jack Rapke, Cherylanne Martin

Operator

Don Burgess

Composer

Alan Silvestri

Artist

Jonathan Carlos

Audition

Victoria Burrows, Scot Boland

Editing

Jeremiah O'Driscoll
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• Olivia Wilde and Dominique McElligott were considered for the role of Nicole.
• Robert Zemeckis' first film with live actors since the release of "Cast Away" (2000).
• Robert Zemeckis' first film to receive an R rating since "Used Cars" (1980) and the second film with such a rating overall out of all films directed by Zemeckis (as of September 2012).
• According to producers Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke, the main airplane in the film is a composite of several existing commercial airliners, so that it would be impossible to identify any specific airplane or airline in the film. Furthermore, there were no advertising fees from any of the alcohol brands shown in the film, and it was decided to show each brand of beer, wine, and spirits only once, so as not to favor any particular brand.
• The story echoes very similar events that occurred in real life in 2001, when Canadian Captain Robert Piché landed an Airbus 330 with both engines failed, saving 306 passengers from certain death. Becoming a hero overnight, he quickly experienced the downside when a journalist exposed his long-forgotten criminal past and personal life. However, the plane did not fly upside down. The film reflects the story of his life, not the plane landing itself.
• While the circumstances of the crash depicted in the film may seem somewhat unbelievable to viewers, there are some parallels to real life. In 2000, Alaska Airlines Flight 261 went out of control when the tail section suddenly failed, and the pilots attempted to regain control of the aircraft while flying upside down. They maintained this position for over a minute. Their attempt ultimately failed, and it ended in a crash in the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles (everyone on board perished).
• At the beginning of the hearing, Chairman Helen Block states that according to the equipment data, the failure occurred exactly 27 minutes after the start of the flight, which contradicts the testimony of the second pilot, who told the flight attendant that the captain had fallen asleep at the controls for 26 minutes, after initially taking off, flying through a thunderstorm, chatting with passengers while preparing an alcoholic cocktail, etc.
• Whip refers to his father’s unit – a Tuskegee Airman from World War II – as Airborne, when the correct term is Air Corps.
• When Whip asks Nicole where she is staying, she replies that she is at the Georgian Terrace Hotel, but her room is in Georgian Gardens. The Georgian Terrace is a well-known hotel where actors often stay when filming in Atlanta.
• The greeting on the Whitaker's answering machine is shorter when we hear it the second time.
• When Whip wakes up in the hospital, he is told he is in a hospital south of Atlanta. Later, he looks out the window at the Concourse Buildings mansions (nicknamed 'King' and 'Queen'), which are located north of Atlanta.
• In the scenes immediately before the crash, the first officer extinguishes a fire in the right engine by pulling a T-handle. A minute later, he does the same for the left engine. In emergency situations, such handles are pulled to extinguish engine fires, but this not only extinguishes the fire itself, but also completely isolates the engine from the aircraft. Fuel, hydraulic, electrical, and air systems are completely shut off, resulting in the engine shutting down completely. However, during this scene in the film, the engines continue to run after these handles are pulled, and the captain even gives orders to change engine power.
• When Whip looks at his iPhone, the lock screen displays the date October 20th, while the calendar on the desktop shows the 8th.
• While Whip is lying in the hospital bed, an agent from the National Transportation Safety Board attaches a dictaphone. The light on the dictaphone is flashing red, indicating that it is paused in recording mode. If it were recording, the red indicator would glow steadily. And at the very end, when the agent turns off the dictaphone, the indicator begins to glow without flashing, meaning recording has started.