Flight of the Phoenix (2004 film)
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Flight of the Phoenix is a 2004 American survival drama film directed by John Moore and written by Scott Frank and Edward Burns. The film is a remake of the 1965 film of the same name, both based on the 1964 novel The Flight of the Phoenix, by Elleston Trevor, about a group of people who survive an aircraft crash in a desert and must build a new aircraft out of the old one to escape. It stars Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi, Tyrese Gibson, Miranda Otto and Hugh Laurie.
Flight of the Phoenix | |
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Directed by | John Moore |
Written by | Scott Frank Edward Burns |
Based on | The Flight of the Phoenix by Lukas Heller |
Produced by | John Davis William Aldrich Wyck Godfrey T. Alex Blum |
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Cinematography | Brendan Galvin |
Edited by | Don Zimmerman |
Music by | Marco Beltrami |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 113 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $45-75 million[1][2] |
Box office | $34.5 million[1] |
Flight of the Phoenix was filmed on location in the Namib Desert, and was released in the United States on December 17, 2004, by 20th Century Fox. The film was a box office failure, and received generally mixed reviews; criticism was geared toward its similarity to the 1965 film, while praise related to the acting, direction and visuals.