Plane was announced in 2016, acquire by Lionsgate in 2019, sold to Solstice Studios in 2020, and reacquire by Lionsgate in 2021, it was filmed in Puerto Rico , and released in the United States on January 13th, 2023, it received generally favorable reviews from critics , had a budget of $25 million dollars , and grossed $74.5 million worldwide, it's an action thriller directed by Jean-François Richet and written by Charles Comming and J.P Davis

Jean-François Richet born in July 2, 1966, is a French screenwriter, film writer and film producer, he grew up in Meaux, a suburb in the east of Paris, his last films were plane in 2023, the emperor of Paris in 2018 and one wild moment in 2014

Gerard Butler as Brodie Torrance, a pilot who has to keep passengers safe, Mike Colter as Louis Gaspare, a passenger extradited on murder charges, Tony Goldwyn as Scarsdale, a former special forces officer who leads the recue effort, Yoson An as Samuel Dele, Brodie's co-pilot, Evan Dane Taylor as Datu Junmmar, a local Jolo terrorist leader, Daniela Pineda as Bonnie, the lead flight attendant, Remi Adeleke as Shellback, a mercenary charged with leading the rescue team, and Haleigh Hekking as Daniela Torrance, Brodie's daughter

one new year's eve pilot brodie was flying a plane with 14 passengers and 3 crew members , From Singapore to Honolulu via Tokyo, when lighting strikes the plane's avionics, forcing Brodie and his copilot to make an emergency landing on the nearest island, Jolo, a remote area of the Philippines ruled by heavily armed militias

meanwhile in New York city the airline's board of directors calls David Scarsdale, its crisis manager, and sends a private unit to rescue the passengers, The pilot goes into the jungle accompanied by Louis, where they find an abandoned warehouse and an old phone, brodie connects it, calls his superiors and his daughter Daniela, and manages to give them the location, but is attacked by a rebel whom he kills with the help of Louis, and they run back to the plane and realize that, the militia leader had found and taken most of the passengers hostage, with the intention of obtaining large ransoms from their families

After the militia group leaves, Brodie and Louis overpower the rebels standing guard, and force them to reveal the location of their hideout, then they find the passenger and put them on a bus, and while Brodie distracts the rebels and is about to be executed, the rescue team arrives, executing many of Junmar's men, the leader of the militia, brodie comes up with a plan, and he and his copilot get the plane started , and get passengers together for takeoff , Louis decides to stay behind to distracts junmar's men, and allow Scarsdale's team to board the plane, and flees with a bag of ransom money brought by the team