Tue, Apr 01, 2003
As war has refocused the nation on the necessity
for family, said families have started to spend more time at
home.
One of the great pastimes of the "don't travel on vacation" set
is going to movies; but so many of the "classics" have already been
done, there's little fare other than more terror, or more special
effects plots.
Those get old after a while, so the industry is returning to
what it arguably does best: it's repackaging the classics.
Interestingly, as aviation has been a part of our public
consciousness more and more over the last few years, so it is with
the movies that are coming up.
Below are a number of classic films set for an aero-remake, and
their proposed stars:
| Star |
Film, Role |
| James Loy (TSA) |
The Ten Commandments (God)
|
| Phil Boyer (AOPA) |
The Ten Commandments (Moses)
|
| John Burton (SnF Chief) |
Willard (title role)
|
| Richard Daley (Chicago Mayor) |
The Jerk (title role)
|
| Sue Gardner (FAA's Sport Pilot Guru) |
Mission: Impossible
|
| Dick Knapinski (EAA) |
Don Quixote
|
Kathleen Bergen
(FAA PIO, Southern Region) |
Jaws (title role)
|
| Glenn Tilton (United Airlines CEO) |
The Longest Day
|
| Tom Buffenbarger (IAM President) |
Rocky XVI
|
| Marion Blakey (FAA Administratrix) |
Looking for Mr Goodbar
|
| Vern Raburn (Eclipse) |
The Nutty Professor
|
| Norm Mineta (DoT Secretary) |
The Man Without a Country
|
| Dick Van Grunsven (Van's Aircraft) |
The Man Who Knew Too Much
|
| Tony Tiarks (Liberty Aerospace) |
Flight of the Phoenix
|
| The FAA's Certification Office |
One Million Years BC
|
| Frank Lorenzo |
Dirty Harry
|
| Jim Goodwin (former UAL CEO, fired for mentioning Chapter 11
possibility) |
A Funny Thing Happened
on the Way to the Forum
|
| Jane Garvey (former FAA Administratrix) |
Mary Poppins
|
Gen. Chuck Yaeger
(first over sound barrier) |
Chariots of Fire
|
| Bob Hoover (world's greatest pilot) |
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
|
| Sean O'Keefe (NASA Administrator) |
Sherlock Holmes, CPA
|
| Paul Poberezny (EAA founder) |
Oedipus Rex
|
| Tom Poberezny (EAA President) |
Those Magnificent Men
in Their Flying Machines
|
Randy Schlitter (designer/inventor,
RANS Aircraft, recumbent bicycles) |
Professor Gadget
|
| Darryl Murphy |
Sergeant Preston, RCMP
|
| Kermit Weeks |
The Battle of Britain (all parts)
|
| Steve Fossett |
The Life of Howard Hughes (title role)
|
| Phil Condit (Boeing CEO) |
Paradise Lost
|
| Ed Swearingen (SJ-30 lead designer) |
Speed 4
|
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