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New film passed as uncontroversial
Veteran film-maker Lucas Playhill's latest release has been given a clean bill of health by US diplomats and corporate VIPs.
A private screening of the director's upcoming film, Airplane, failed to spark the political row which had been predicted by some who claimed the film was soft on terrorism.
The film depicts the notorious Cheney Airport incident in which fourteen armed air marshals pre-emptively neutralised the entire passenger cabin of a Blairways Boeing 911 Supercomfort jet.
The marshals later claimed that one of them had heard a passenger mention the word "bomb", while another had seen a different passenger with a suspiciously bulky stomach which resembled a rucksack.
Although still officially on trial, all of the marshals have been returned to active duty until their lawsuits against each other and against Instant & Utter Security Incorporated, the private security firm which placed them on the aircraft, have been concluded.
Mr Playhill said he was "very pleased" with the diplomatic and corporate reaction to the film.
"There's been a lot of controversy but I think the real message of the film is a positive one," he said. "I think what we're trying to say is that it isn't marshals or passengers who are to blame for what happened, but the bad stuff that happens in the world from time to time."
The film depicts the airport pacification and its aftermath, focusing on the fictionalised character of one of the air marshals whose marriage is saved thanks to his overcoming of his guilt to neutralise a genuine terrorist on a different aircraft full of children some years later.
Veteran film-maker Lucas Playhill's latest release has been given a clean bill of health by US diplomats and corporate VIPs.
A private screening of the director's upcoming film, Airplane, failed to spark the political row which had been predicted by some who claimed the film was soft on terrorism.
The film depicts the notorious Cheney Airport incident in which fourteen armed air marshals pre-emptively neutralised the entire passenger cabin of a Blairways Boeing 911 Supercomfort jet.
The marshals later claimed that one of them had heard a passenger mention the word "bomb", while another had seen a different passenger with a suspiciously bulky stomach which resembled a rucksack.
Although still officially on trial, all of the marshals have been returned to active duty until their lawsuits against each other and against Instant & Utter Security Incorporated, the private security firm which placed them on the aircraft, have been concluded.
Mr Playhill said he was "very pleased" with the diplomatic and corporate reaction to the film.
"There's been a lot of controversy but I think the real message of the film is a positive one," he said. "I think what we're trying to say is that it isn't marshals or passengers who are to blame for what happened, but the bad stuff that happens in the world from time to time."
The film depicts the airport pacification and its aftermath, focusing on the fictionalised character of one of the air marshals whose marriage is saved thanks to his overcoming of his guilt to neutralise a genuine terrorist on a different aircraft full of children some years later.
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