A new airplane that's equipped with a new computer that can fly the plane on its own is about to have its first flight. But a virus shuts down the plane mid-flight and the pilots are incapacitated so ...
Kentucky Fried Movie gave them a degree of credibility ... and ZAZ stuck to their guns on using the film as the basis of Airplane! To a degree. As David Zucker recalls, they were hell-bent ...
Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker started out writing Airplane! as a parody of all disaster movies, but based it especially on the 1957 airplane drama Zero Hour. They used the concept — a romance in mid-air, as ...