Plane (film)
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Directed by | Jean-François Richet |
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Story by | Charles Cumming |
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Cinematography | Brendan Galvin |
Edited by | David Rosenbloom |
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Distributed by | Lionsgate |
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Running time | 107 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $25 million[2] |
Box office | $31.3 million[3][4] |
Plane is a 2023 American action thriller film directed by Jean-François Richet from a screenplay by Charles Cumming and J. P. Davis.[5] The film stars Gerard Butler, Mike Colter, Yoson An, and Tony Goldwyn. The plot centers on a pilot (Butler) allying with a prisoner (Colter) to save his passengers from a hostile territory they landed in for an emergency landing.
The film was announced in 2016, acquired by Lionsgate in 2019, sold to Solstice Studios in 2020, and re-acquired by Lionsgate in 2021. It was shot in Puerto Rico.
Plane was released in the United States on January 13, 2023. It received generally favorable reviews from critics and has grossed $31 million worldwide, becoming the 10th top-grossing film of 2023[6], currently.
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Plot
Commercial pilot Brodie Torrance, a former RAF pilot, flies Trailblazer Airlines Flight 119 from Singapore to Honolulu via Tokyo. After his plane suffers damage from a storm in the South China Sea, he is forced to land his plane in what turns out to be Jolo island in the Philippines with the loss of a stewardess and an RCMP officer, who is accompanying fugitive homicide suspect Louis Gaspare.
In New York City, the board of Trailblazer calls their crisis manager, Scarsdale. He dispatches a private military outfit to rescue the passengers, as the authorities are unwilling to send troops into the rebel-controlled island. Torrance goes off into the jungle to seek help, accompanied by Gaspare. At an abandoned warehouse, Brodie phones his superiors and daughter to tell their location, but is attacked by a rebel whom he subdues. They encounter a site used by the rebels to make ransom videos and race back to the plane, but are beaten to it by rebel leader Datu Junmar, who kills a Korean couple who try to escape and takes the surviving passengers and crew hostage, intending to secure large ransoms from their families.
After the group leaves, Brodie and Gaspare overpower remaining rebels and force them to reveal the location of their lair. Before leaving, Brodie leaves a note for rescue teams telling them what happened. At the rebel hideout, Brodie and Gaspare kill the hostages' guards and sneak them onto a bus. Brodie decides to stay behind to distract the rebels. As he is about to be executed, the rescue team arrives, inflicting heavy casualties on Junmar's men.
Back at the plane, Brodie and his copilot Samuel Dele manage to make the plane operational again and gather the hostages inside for takeoff as Scarsdale's group and Gaspare fight off Junmar's men. Gaspare chooses to stay behind to distract Junmar's forces and allow Scarsdale's team to board the plane, preventing an attempt by Junmar to blow up the plane with an RPG and later fleeing into the jungle with a bag of money brought by the mercenaries to pay for the hostages.
The plane is too damaged and too low on fuel to make a long journey, but Brodie manages to land the plane at the neighboring island of Siasi, where they are finally rescued by government forces and where Brodie receives praise from the passengers and crew.
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Cast

- Gerard Butler as Brodie Torrance, a commercial pilot
- Mike Colter as Louis Gaspare, a former GPC French Foreign Legion passenger being extradited on charges of homicide
- Yoson An as Samuel Dele, Torrance's co-pilot
- Tony Goldwyn as Scarsdale, a former Special Forces officer who leads the rescue effort
- Daniella Pineda as Bonnie Lane, the head flight attendant
- Paul Ben-Victor as Terry Hampton, the owner of the airline
- Remi Adeleke as Shellback, a mercenary tasked with leading a rescue team
- Joey Slotnick as Matt Sinclair, a short-tempered businessman and one of the passengers
- Evan Dane Taylor as Datu Junmar, a local warlord and terrorist leader on Jolo
- Claro De Los Reyes as Hajan, Junmar’s right-hand man
- Kelly Gale as Katie, a Swedish passenger, and Brie's friend and companion
- Lilly Krug as Brie, a passenger with a large following on social media
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Production
On July 13, 2016, MadRiver Pictures acquired The Plane, an original pitch from novelist Charles Cumming, with Marc Butan and Di Bonaventura Pictures' Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian announced as producers.[7] In October 2019, it was reported that Gerard Butler had joined the cast and would also produce alongside Alan Siegel.[8]
In November 2019, Lionsgate Films acquired distribution rights to the film,[9][10] but in November 2020, it abandoned the project after failing to obtain production insurance that would cover a COVID-19 outbreak, as the studio did not want to risk the film's original $50 million budget,[11] and Solstice Studios acquired the rights to the film.[12] However, in May 2021, Lionsgate re-acquired the rights to The Plane, in what Andreas Wiseman from Deadline Hollywood described as a "case of high-profile Hollywood volleyball."[13]
In August 2021, Kelly Gale,[14] Mike Colter,[15] Daniella Pineda,[16] Yoson An,[17] Remi Adeleke, Haleigh Hekking, Lilly Krug, Joey Slotnick, and Oliver Trevena joined the cast.[18] Production began that same month in Puerto Rico.[19] Michael Cho, Tim Lee, Gary Raskin, Alastair Burlingame, and Vicki Dee Rock were attached to the film as Executive Producers.[20] On a podcast, Colter said the film was going to focus more on character development than action sequences.[21] On October 11, 2021, it was reported that filming was close to finishing and that Tony Goldwyn and Paul Ben-Victor would also star.[22]
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Release
The film was released in theaters in the United States on January 13, 2023, by Lionsgate. It was previously set for release on January 27, 2023.[23]
Reception
Box office
As of January 30, 2023[update], Plane has grossed $25.7 million in the United States and Canada, and $5.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $31.3 million.[3][4]
In the United States and Canada, Plane was released alongside House Party and the wide expansion of A Man Called Otto, and was projected to gross $7–10 million from 3,023 theaters in its opening weekend.[24] The film made $3 million on its first day, including $435,000 from Thursday night previews. It went on to debut to $10.2 million ($11.8 million over the four-day MLK weekend), finishing in fifth.[25] The film made $5.3 million and $3.8 million in its second and third weekends, respectively.[26][27]
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 76% of 146 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.0/10. The website's consensus reads, "Plane charts a standard action-adventure course with its cruising altitude just a few miles above Direct-to-Video – but with Gerard Butler in the cockpit, thriller enthusiasts may still find this a fairly fun flight."[28] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 61 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[29] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale, while those polled by PostTrak gave it an 83% positive score, with 63% saying they would definitely recommend it.[25]
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Source: "Plane (film)", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, February 1st), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(film).
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References
- ^ "Plane". AMC Theatres. December 28, 2022.
- ^ Brueggemann, Tom (January 15, 2023). "'Avatar: Way of Water,' 'M3GAN,' and the MLK Holiday Mean a $100 Million Box Office Weekend". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 22, 2023.
- ^ a b "Plane (2022)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved January 31, 2023.
- ^ a b "Plane (2022)". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved January 31, 2023.
- ^ "The Plane". Writers Guild of America West. March 2, 2022. Retrieved May 11, 2022.
- ^ https://en.wikiz.com/wiki/2023_in_film.
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- ^ Couch, Aaron (August 3, 2021). "Mike Colter Joining Gerard Butler in Lionsgate's The Plane (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on August 3, 2021. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
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