Sully (film)

Snooze fest.

 

Well if there's an F-4 in it I'll go see it.

 

They used real F-4s. There are still about 20 flying that are being converted into arial targets. They are based out of Holloman AFB in New Mexico. This year's EAA AirVenture show in Oshkosh featured aerial demos by 2 Phantoms.

 

I know Rob Collings has one. Or I guess I should say the foundation has one. I heard rumor that he attained it through "pork" on a bill/act of congress. LOL... Well I am glad some good comes of "pork"

Aircraft - The Collings Foundation

 

Sully made $35M, positioned number 1, on its first weekend, so looks like it will be a commercial success since it cost $65M to make.

 

Sully is now an industry, check out his website Sully Sullenberger

Crap I knew it would be big. I got Austin of X-Plane 10 Global | The World?s Most Advanced Flight Simulator | X-Plane.com fame in touch with the VP for Warner Brothers to see if there's some synergy for a business venture. When it first happened, Austin downloaded the entire episode including ATC, and created a flying game on the Iphone, complete with bird blood splatter for the kids playing it. You flew the plane through boxes like on his emergency landing ap Xavion ? By Austin Meyer and hopefully landed as Sully did duplicating his flight path.

Within a week he had 100k in his pocket at 99 cents a clip when he got a cease and desist letter from US Air. He promptly withdrew it as he could not have AAPL take notice of negative publisity. This was when Jobs was still alive and everyone was afraid of Jobs. Austin reasoned he could not jeopardize X-plane by pissing off Jobs.

So the story is this: "Too late to get it in the original release, but he movie lives in many widowns". That's a direct quote from the VP. I expect to see something in a box set or via other means. But man he sure could have hit it out of the park if it could have been promoted with the release.

Anyway, Austin just completed a movie on Patent trolls, with him as the star. He was sued a few years ago, and instead of settling for say 50K, he decided to spend a number of millions defending and making a movie. This new connection may help him release the movie, and I expect him to do other things now with simulation for Warner. Oh, the VP also is an avid user of X-Plane. So, the stars were all lined up, but just missed the first flight out!! Crap!

 

WOW... thats a great story