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7500 is a 2019 action-thriller film [7] directed by Patrick Vollrath (in his feature-length directorial debut) and written by Vollrath and Senad Halilbašić.It stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tobias Ellis, a pilot whose plane is hijacked by Islamic terrorists.
In October 1993, the Associated Press reported that a Nigerian Airways flight carrying between 135 and 137 passengers, including government officials, had been hijacked by four men, per Neusroom ...
The film held a production commencement ceremony that day as well as a birthday celebration for Lau. An interactive teaser poster was released which features a QR code when scanned with a cellular phone, an announcement of a plane hijacking can heard spoken by actor Guo Xiaodong, who plays a CEO of an airline company in the film.
On 19 February 2016, the Bollywood movie Neerja, based on this hijacking, was released. December 25, 1986: 63 people were killed when Iraqi Airways Flight 163 crashed near Arar, Saudi Arabia due to an explosion in the cockpit. The plane was hijacked by 3 men of the Lebanese group Islamic Jihad.
At the website Movie City News, which ranks 250 critics' lists and awards points for list-placement, United 93 ranks as the number one film of 2006 [45] [46] [47] with a score of 917.5 points. The film has been cited as a favorite by filmmaker John Waters , who presented it as his annual selection at the 2010 Maryland Film Festival .
The AP reported the plane’s original crew had been replaced after it stopped in Aruba for a third time. It also said that on the third day of the hijacking the airline gave the men $50,000.
Hijacking is a central theme in the Turbulence movie trilogy. In Mission: Impossible 2, one of the film's antagonists hijacks a plane at the start of the movie. The 2006 film United 93 is based on the real events onboard United Airlines Flight 93 one of the four airlines hijacked during the September 11 attacks.