Max Sylvester (Photo credit: ABC News).
Anthony Hayes and Daniel Krige have secured the screen rights to the heroic story of Max Sylvester, the student pilot who managed to safely land a Cessna in Perth after his instructor passed out mid-flight.
Hayes and Krige are writing and plan to co-direct the 90-minute feature, working title Flight School, with events unfolding in real time.
The duo, who first collaborated on Krige’s 2007 crime drama West, aim to raise $500,000 from crowd-funding site Indiegogo and then seek completion funding from Screen Australia.
Sylvester, 29, called air traffic control just over an hour into his lesson at Perth’s Jandakot Airport one Saturday afternoon in September after his instructor collapsed.
During one very intense hour the air traffic controller coached Sylvester on how to fly and land the plane while his wife and three young children waited anxiously on the ground.
“It’s an insane...
Anthony Hayes and Daniel Krige have secured the screen rights to the heroic story of Max Sylvester, the student pilot who managed to safely land a Cessna in Perth after his instructor passed out mid-flight.
Hayes and Krige are writing and plan to co-direct the 90-minute feature, working title Flight School, with events unfolding in real time.
The duo, who first collaborated on Krige’s 2007 crime drama West, aim to raise $500,000 from crowd-funding site Indiegogo and then seek completion funding from Screen Australia.
Sylvester, 29, called air traffic control just over an hour into his lesson at Perth’s Jandakot Airport one Saturday afternoon in September after his instructor collapsed.
During one very intense hour the air traffic controller coached Sylvester on how to fly and land the plane while his wife and three young children waited anxiously on the ground.
“It’s an insane...
- 10/28/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
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