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)
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