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DENZEL WASHINGTON TO STAR IN “FLIGHT” FOR DIRECTOR ROBERT ZEMECKIS AND PARAMOUNT PICTURES
HOLLYWOOD, CA (September 9, 2011) - Paramount Pictures announced today that Academy Award ® winner Denzel Washington will star, and Academy Award ® winning director Robert Zemeckis will helm, FLIGHT for the studio. Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald will produce under the Parkes/MacDonald production banner along with Zemeckis, Steve Starkey, and Jack Rapke under their ImageMovers banner. The movie is set to begin shooting this October in Atlanta, GA.
Written by John Gatins (“Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story,” “Real Steel”), FLIGHT tells the redemption story of “Whip” (Washington), a commercial airline pilot who pulls off a heroic feat of flying in a damaged plane, saving 98 lives on a flight carrying 106 people. While the world begs to embrace him as a true American Hero, the everyman struggles with this label as he is forced to hold up to the scrutiny of an investigation that brings into question his behavior the night before the doomed flight.
The project marks first ever teaming of Washington and Zemeckis, while also marking a return to live-action for the director, who previously helmed such hits as “Castaway,” “Forest Gump,” “Back To The Future,” and the live-action & animated classic “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”.
Zemeckis is repped by CAA, Washington is repped by WME and Gatins is repped by UTA.
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This should prove a fruitful relationship if the movie holds up to the premise. Washington has so much more to offer than the film roles that have come his way in the past five or so years. It sounds like this could be a much needed detour from the over-the-top action movies he's been stuck in. Personally, Unstoppable was a train wreck, literally, and The Book of Eli never fully knew what kind of movie it wanted to be. It would be great to see Washington given a meatier role, a complex character rooted in the everyday rather than someone that's mostly caricature fighting through forgettable stories.
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