I was just thinking that we hadn’t really seen Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a while, not in a lead role, anyway. His last starring gig was in 2016’s Snowden, while he’s made some fun cameos (The Last Jedi, Knives Out) in his buddy Rian Johnson’s films. Well, now he’s back with Amazon’s plane hijacking film, 7500, which puts him in the role of an unlikely hero.
7500 is a little bit different from other plane hijacking movies, in that Gordon-Levitt’s character isn’t some badass action hero. He’s just a typical, everyday co-pilot who is the only one capable of saving the day when terrorists attempt to takeover the plane, threatening passengers and the crew, which includes his girlfriend.
The film is written and directed by Patrick Vollrath in his feature debut. Vollrath is best known for his Oscar-nominated short Everything Will Be Okay.
Amazon Prime will premiere 7500 on June 19th.
SYNOPSIS: It looks like a routine day at work for Tobias, a soft-spoken young American co-pilot on a flight from Berlin to Paris as he runs through the preflight checklist with Michael, the pilot, and chats with Gökce, his flight-attendant girlfriend. But shortly after takeoff, terrorists armed with makeshift knives suddenly storm the cockpit, seriously wounding Michael and slashing Tobias’ arm. Temporarily managing to fend off the attackers, a terrified Tobias contacts ground control to plan an emergency landing. But when the hijackers kill a passenger and threaten to murder more innocent people if he doesn’t let them back into the cockpit, this ordinary man faces an excruciating test.
