FILM · 2005 · USA
Flightplan
18 archived facts 2 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
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- #001
The role played by Jodie Foster was originally written for Sean Penn, and even the original character's name, "Kyle," was kept. Coincidentally, Penn's role in The Game (1997) had originally been intended for Jodie Foster.
- #002
Sean Bean, who plays Captain Rich, is afraid of flying in real life and only does it when absolutely necessary. Peter Sarsgaard also admits to having a lifelong fear of flying.
- #003
Although the AALTO Air E-474 shown in the film is a fictional aircraft, its overall design bears a strong resemblance to the real-life double-decker Airbus A380-800; the film's cockpit is nearly identical to those of A380s.
- #004
Contrary to his character's fate in the film, Sean Bean actually survives. It is one of the few films in which he does not die.
- #005
It was the last film released by Touchstone Pictures to be issued on VHS.
- #006
Because the instrument panel used in many films had been destroyed in Cast Away (2000), the plane's instrument panel had to be built from scratch.
- #007
The film's premise closely resembled that of Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938).
- #008
Erica Christensen (Fiona) hated the high heels her character had to wear because they genuinely hurt her feet. In every shot filmed from the waist up, she went without shoes.
- #009
It was Matt Bomer's first film.
- #010
Six flight attendants called for an official boycott of the film, believing that flight attendants were portrayed as rude, careless, indifferent and even as terrorists.
- #011
After the film's premiere, flight attendant unions in some countries protested it on the grounds that it created a bad image of their profession.
- #012
The 35 mm prints of the film come from a digital intermediate with digitally reduced grain. As a result, all prints contain visible digital grain-reduction artifacts.
- #013
Portia de Rossi, Christina Ricci and Josie Davis were offered the role of Kyle Pratt but turned it down.
- #014
WILHELM SCREAM: Heard one hour in, at the 26-minute mark (right after the plane's cockpit windows blow out).
- #015
It was Lois Hall's last film.
- #016
Sean Bean plays an airline pilot in this film. One of his first filmed roles (in 1984) was in a TV commercial for non-alcoholic beer, in which he played a passenger who lands a crashing plane whose pilots are unfit to fly. Ironically, Bean hates flying in real life.
- #017
The design of the E-474, a double-decker jumbo jet, was largely inspired by the Airbus A-380, and its large size suited the film's missing-person plot, but before the Airbus A380 was launched the work was based on combining it with designs from the Boeing 747.
- #018
It was Marlene Lawston's debut.
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