Plane (2023) on Netflix
Commercial pilot Brodie Torrance lands his storm-damaged airliner on Jolo, in the southern Philippines. Rebels seize the passengers. His only ally is Louis Gaspare, a homicide suspect.
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Plot summary
Brodie Torrance, a former RAF officer from Scotland, flies Trailblazer Airlines Flight 119 from Singapore to Honolulu with a stop in Tokyo. A directive from his superiors keeps him on a route over the South China Sea, where severe weather damages the aircraft's avionics. Torrance and co-pilot Samuel Dele land on Jolo, a remote island in the southern Philippines. Among the fourteen passengers is Louis Gaspare, a homicide suspect being extradited to Canada under RCMP custody. In New York, David Scarsdale takes charge of the airline's response while local authorities say they need a day. Torrance and Gaspare leave the plane and walk into the jungle looking for help.
Cast
- Fernando Changas Chan Yuen
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Plane (2023)
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- Filipino actor and senator Robin Padilla condemned the film for depicting Jolo as run by separatists and militia and the Philippine Army as "cowards". Fellow senator Ronald dela Rosa and Senate President Migz Zubiri supported him, arguing the film could damage the country's tourism.
- After the Philippines' Movie and Television Review and Classification Board said it would re-evaluate the film, distributor Pioneer Films voluntarily pulled it from public exhibition on February 23, saying it intended to submit a new version for review and classification.
- Lionsgate acquired distribution rights in November 2019 but abandoned the project a year later, unable to obtain production insurance covering a COVID-19 outbreak on the $50 million budget. Solstice Studios took over, then Lionsgate re-acquired the rights in May 2021, a "case of high-profile Hollywood volleyball" to Deadline Hollywood.
- In February 2026, Mike Colter stated that Gerard Butler had exited the planned follow-up two weeks before filming was expected to begin, effectively causing its cancellation.
