A director could be right on the instrumentation and see the dials for real, without having to do green screen, without having to do anything in post.” “And hooked up to a simulator so that we could plot the flight from Dubai to London, and we read the appropriate readouts for every moment in the flight.
“The director of photography is a bit of a flying geek and had a simulator at home,” Purcell said. The flight panel of “Hijack” Courtesy of Apple And not only was the plane’s lighting was built in, offering the crew the ability to subtly adjust the brightness and tone throughout what would typically be a fairly mundane daytime flight, but the cockpit’s control panel was rigged to a flight simulator to ensure as much authenticity as possible. “You’ve got a actually rigging up the camera behind the phone, so when Idris is on the phone to them in the cockpit, that was a live feed, his face on the cockpit screen,” Purcell said. Likewise, several sequences include the camera situated outside the cockpit near the security door, which frequently cuts to the black-and-white monitor the pilots watch. They had to be full shows available, pretty much.” So we couldn’t do that with just 10-second loops. So if you have a hijacker walking from the tail up to the cockpit, passing everybody’s monitors, then all the material on all those seats had to be that much further on. “The back of every seat and every seat had to have the option that you would have in flight, in-flight information, the map with the plane’s progression, commercials, films, music, cartoons, all of that,” Purcell said. That illusion extended all the way to the airline’s branding - from coasters and logo to the decor of first class - and the monitors on the backs of the seats, something done practically rather than with VFX.
Likewise, Purcell and his team had to enlarge the typical size of some action-heavy areas of the plane to accommodate the crew while also maintaining the illusion of a real plane. And while authenticity was central, the needs of filming necessitated the ability to pull apart sections while 200 people stepped on and off the plane each day, which presented structural issues that a real plane wouldn’t have. The plane began with an empty platform, which was eventually filled with over 164 feet of the bespoke plane, from cockpit to tail.
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