So the Leo DiCaprio ‘Aviator’ comes out Dec 17…it’ll be a good gauge for us to see how well Michael Mann does with an aviation related topic since he’s apparently slated to direct Tom Cruise in ‘The Few’…unless anyone knows different…but I just came across a link on one of the ‘Aviator’ sites that has Jim Carrey cast to play Howard Hughes in ANOTHER film on the famous aviator that is still being cast as of this moment! That should ALSO be interesting!
Mark
By: Hatton - 13th November 2004 at 21:53
Anyone have any Production pics, or links?
www.quicktime.com has trailers for btoh films
By: Bigglesworth - 13th November 2004 at 16:57
So the Leo DiCaprio ‘Aviator’ comes out Dec 17…it’ll be a good gauge for us to see how well Michael Mann does with an aviation related topic since he’s apparently slated to direct Tom Cruise in ‘The Few’…unless anyone knows different…but I just came across a link on one of the ‘Aviator’ sites that has Jim Carrey cast to play Howard Hughes in ANOTHER film on the famous aviator that is still being cast as of this moment! That should ALSO be interesting!
Mark
The Aviator is released here in England on Boxing Day in the West End, it goes nationwide two weeks later on the 14th January (previews possible earlier that week), definately looks good.
The remake of ‘Flight of the Pheonix’ is slated for release on the 14th Jan, another to look out for, it’s going to be a good week!
Anyone have any Production pics, or links?
As for the other films I know of with possible aviation content/story are:
‘Sky High’ and ‘Flight Plan’ both from Buena Vista/Disney and expected late October 2005.
By: J Boyle - 13th November 2004 at 16:34
I wonder if that lineup of Constellations was all CG, or if they duplicated shots of the one they did use. For the filming of ‘Aviator’ the Airline History Museum’s L-1049 Super G N6937C ‘Star of America’ was used.
From the 2 second shot I saw, the planes looked like later model Connies like the “Star of America”…maybe they shot it and digitally “cloned” it.
By: Papa Lima - 13th November 2004 at 08:36
Star of America
At Dayton 2003.
By: dj51d - 13th November 2004 at 04:42
I wonder if that lineup of Constellations was all CG, or if they duplicated shots of the one they did use. For the filming of ‘Aviator’ the Airline History Museum’s L-1049 Super G N6937C ‘Star of America’ was used.
By: J Boyle - 13th November 2004 at 03:33
The film is directed by Martin Scorsese, it’s produced by Mann.
I just saw a trailer on TV and there are lots of scenes with the H-1 racer, the Hercules flying boat and F-11 prototype, obviously all computer generated (except for the cockpit mockup that flew …as was recently covered in FlyPast).
One of the neatest scens appears tobe when he buys TWA, there was a quick shot of a dozen TWA Connies on a ramp. That should get airliner fans excited.
Although I’m not a huge DiCaprio fan (I guess I’m the wrong gender), it should be interesting as most things done by Scorsese deserve a look.
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