Originally intended as a film within a film, Airplane borrowed so much from one 50s disaster flick that the ZAZ creative team got the rights to remake it in order to get away with their spoof. As everyone was asking “surely, you can’t be serious?” the line that followed got everyone to relax about what the film would be, and famously changed Leslie Nielsen’s career.
I look into this and more production stories from Airplane in this introduction I gave for a special charity screening in November 2023, held at the former Bristol IMAX (now called the Bristol Megascreen) in Bristol Aquarium. The audio featured in the below video was recorded specially for it, based on notes that I had made before the screening.
The screening itself was raising money for homelessness charity BillyChip, which you can find more information on here.
Just A Little Bit Random 