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33-460: The school was founded in 2000 by screenwriter Dan Gordon and industry professional Stephan Schultze . The Institute was originally named for Dan Gordon's eldest son, Zaki Gordon, an independent film maker who died at the age of 22. In 2012, it changed its name to the Sedona Film School, in response to Gordon leaving the school. In 2013, Yavapai College announced the temporary closure of

66-407: A car onto the speeding plane (through the nose landing gear) before it takes off. Inside, Cutter deals with more of Rane's accomplices before getting into a fight with Rane. A bullet blows out one of the plane's windows causing explosive decompression, and a door blows out. Cutter manages to get Rane close to the open door and kicks him out of the plane, which sends Rane, screaming in terror, out into

99-557: A small airport in Louisiana , filming took place in Snipes's hometown of Orlando, Florida , with Orlando-Sanford International Airport standing in for "Lake Lucille" airport in Louisiana. The airport's former combination main hangar and control tower from its time as Naval Air Station Sanford was used for many key scenes just prior to its demolition after filming. Passenger 57' s soundtrack

132-533: Is a 1992 American action thriller film directed by Kevin Hooks . The film stars Wesley Snipes and Bruce Payne , with Snipes portraying a security consultant who finds himself forced to foil a plot to free a captive terrorist during a commercial airline flight. Critical reviews were mixed, but the film was a box-office success, and made Snipes a popular action hero icon. British international terrorist Charles Rane, whose career has been dubbed as "The Rane of Terror" by

165-665: Is a captain in the Israel Defense Forces Reserves. Gordon married his wife Jo-Ann while he was in Israel (and they divorced in 1995). They have three sons Zaki, Yoni and Adam. Zaki, his eldest, died in a traffic accident in 1998 at the age of 22. During the summer of 2019, Gordon married Leah Denmark in Rome in a small private ceremony. Gordon is Jewish, and has acted as a keynote speaker at Jewish and Christian religious conferences. Passenger 57 Passenger 57

198-458: Is a terrorist, and take him to the airport building. Rane contacts the field's tower and demands refueling, for which he promises half the passengers will be freed. For every three minutes of resistance or indecision, Rane will order five passengers to be executed. Rane also falsely asserts that Cutter is one of his own men turned against him. Biggs gives the go-ahead for refueling, and as the passengers are freed, Rane and some of his men escape from

231-521: Is an Israeli-American screenwriter, television writer, television producer, television director, film producer, novelist, playwright, film director, and reserve duty captain in the Israel Defense Forces . As a screenwriter , he has written films including Wyatt Earp , Passenger 57 , Murder in the First , and The Hurricane , and developed the story for Rambo: Last Blood . He has been

264-463: Is outmatched and escapes with Marti to the cargo hold. Cutter dispatches another of Rane's men, Vincent, who is disguised as a caterer. Cutter trips circuitry to dump the plane's fuel, forcing Rane to order the surviving pilots to land at a small Louisiana airfield. As Cutter and Marti prepare to escape upon touchdown, Marti is caught by Forget and he kicks Cutter out of the plane. The local sheriff, Leonard Biggs, and his deputies arrest Cutter, thinking he

297-497: The Ginegar kibbutz . After high school he returned to Southern California and studied at East LA Junior College for a year, before transferring to UCLA as a film and television major. While at UCLA, Dan pitched a one-act play he had written, Once I Was , as a film to Universal Studios , and they hired him as a writer. But he was fired by Studio Chair Lew Wasserman for stealing office supplies. In 1971, Gordon began directing

330-667: The Walter Kerr Theatre in previews starting March 10, 2009, officially March 29, 2009, with the same cast from off-Broadway. His stage adaptation of Barry Morrow's Rain Man premiered at the Apollo Theatre in London's West End in 2009, and was subsequently performed in Prague (Czech Republic), Stuttgart (Germany), Brussels (Belgium) and Utrecht (The Netherlands). Gordon is the co-founder of

363-644: The Zaki Gordon Institute (ZGI), a film school in Sedona, Arizona . The institute is named for his eldest son, Zaki Gordon, who died in a traffic accident in 1998 at the age of 22 years. Gordon taught part-time at the institute. He also teaches at Columbia University School of the Arts , USC School of Cinematic Arts and UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television , to which he donates an annual $ 5,000 prize to screenwriting students in honor of his son. In 2012, he left

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396-547: The First (1995), The Assignment (1997) and The Hurricane (1999). Gordon's most recent work includes a "story by" credit for Rambo: Last Blood (2019). His play, Irena's Vow , premiered at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York, in September 2008. Starring Tovah Feldshuh , it is the true story of Irena Gut , who hid twelve Jews in a cellar during World War II. The play opened on Broadway at

429-620: The Mafia needed the film to fail, as part of a money laundering scheme. The film was never finished. Fearing the Mafia, due to the fallout from trying to make Potluck , Gordon fled to Israel, where he served in the Israeli Army. While there, he wrote the screenplay for Train Ride to Hollywood , the 1975 pop musical starring the Kansas City R&;B band Bloodstone , though he would return briefly to

462-626: The Sedona Film School while its curriculum was updated. The updated program began admitting students in the Fall of 2015 as the Film and Media Arts Program. The school offers film making courses in narrative and occasionally documentary programs (If student enrollment is of sufficient numbers), and previously offered a second year advanced program in which students and faculty produce a full-length feature film. Dan Gordon (screenwriter) Dan Gordon ( Hebrew : דן גורדון ; born ( 1947-05-05 ) May 5, 1947)

495-679: The Tarmac" has been re-used for the trailer of another action film , Sudden Death . A cover of Stevie Wonder 's " Too High " by Norman Brown also features in the film. The film was released on video in the United States by Warner Home Video in October 1993. It was released on DVD in Region 1 in the United States on May 27, 1998, and Region 2 in the United Kingdom on April 26, 1999. Passenger 57

528-538: The United States to rewrite it prior to filming. After more than a decade, Gordon returned to Hollywood to continue his screenwriting career in the early 1980s. Gordon was hired to be the head writer for the TV show Highway to Heaven (1984–88), for which he also directed three episodes. He wanted to write for both film and television, which was uncommon at the time. Gordon went on to write numerous screenplays including Passenger 57 (1992), Wyatt Earp (1994), Murder in

561-642: The Zaki Gordon Institute after founding the Zaki Gordon Center for Cinematic Arts at Liberty University in 2011. After Gordon left, The Zaki Gordon Institute, in Arizona, changed its name to the Sedona Film School . Gordon was also a close friend of Tim Buckley , collaborating with him on an unfilmed movie script called "Fully Air-conditioned Inside." He also played the role of a homeless man in

594-451: The film Potluck , based on a screenplay he had written. They shot the film guerrilla style in New York, without obtaining film permits. As Gordon soon discovered, the film's independent financiers were Mafia -connected. Although the film was coming in under its $ 100,000 budget, they claimed the financing had dried up. Gordon and his collaborators tried to raise the funds to finish the film, but

627-553: The film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale. Marcus Trower, of Empire magazine, stated that Bruce Payne was "a brilliantly disconcerting madman. With his flowing blond Jesus locks, armor-piercing stare and casual sadism, he makes Hannibal Lecter look like a social worker – and like Sir Anthony Hopkins 's serial killer, part of the man's menace is in the apparent contradiction between his articulate, well-spoken English and his off-hand brutality." The Radio Times stated that Payne and Snipes both gave 'charismatic turns' in

660-617: The independent film. Waiting for Mo (1996), which he produced with his son, Zaki, who wrote and directed the film. He has been a member of the Directors Guild of America since 1985. Gordon joined the Israeli Army in the early 1970s. He served for almost a decade, including during the Yom Kippur War of 1973. He served as an escort officer in the Military Spokesperson's Unit during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict . He

693-553: The media, is arrested by the FBI and local authorities in Miami, just as he is about to undergo plastic surgery in order to evade law enforcement. The FBI make plans to return Rane to Los Angeles to stand trial. Widowed law enforcement veteran John Cutter has served an honorable career as a reputable police officer, decorated soldier, and reliable Secret Service agent known for his tough stance on high-level crimes. Having constantly been haunted by

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726-455: The memories of his wife's death in a convenience store robbery, Cutter has launched a course specializing in training flight attendants in self-defense. After one class, Cutter is approached by an old friend, Sly Delvecchio, who offers Cutter the vice presidency of a new antiterrorism unit for his company, Atlantic International Airlines. Cutter is reluctant, but Delvecchio and the company's president, Stuart Ramsey, eventually convince him to accept

759-470: The night sky where he falls 35,000 feet (11 km) to his death. The plane returns to the airfield, where the FBI agents secure Sabrina Ritchie, Rane's only remaining agent, and the remaining hostages are freed. Amid congratulations and celebration, Marti and Cutter make their escape into the distance hand-in-hand, but not before Chief Biggs offers them a ride. The film was based on a script by Stewart Raffill . It

792-451: The offer. Cutter boards as the 57th passenger on an Atlantic International flight to Los Angeles (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar ), where one of his students, Marti Slayton, is one of the flight attendants. Rane and his two FBI escorts are also aboard. After the flight takes off, several henchmen in Rane's employ, posing as flight attendants and passengers, kill the FBI agents, release Rane, and secure

825-455: The plane by also killing the captain. Cutter, in the lavatory at the time, manages to use the plane's on-board phone to warn Delvecchio of the situation, but Cutter is soon caught by one of Rane's henchmen. Cutter overpowers the henchman and takes his weapon; he then uses him (in a chokehold) as a shield to confront Rane, but an indifferent Rane shows his ruthlessness by murdering both a passenger and said henchman in cold blood; Cutter realizes he

858-469: The plane. Cutter recognizes the passenger release as a diversion, escapes from the sheriff, and chases Rane and his men into a local county fair, where he is able to kill one of Rane's men. As Cutter fights with Rane, police arrive and capture Rane, with FBI agents following and confirming Cutter's true identity to Biggs. Back at the tower, Rane announces that if he does not contact the plane and give flight clearance, his men aboard have been instructed to kill

891-668: The producer, screenwriter and story editor for over 200 hours of television, including Highway to Heaven , Highlander , and Soldier of Fortune, Inc. He has also written stage adaptations of Terms of Endearment and Rain Man , and novels based on his screenplays as well as his own experiences fighting in the Gaza War . Dan Gordon was born in Southern California , to a Jewish family. He grew up in Bell Gardens, CA , and at 16 went to Israel where he attended high school at

924-404: The rest of the hostages. The FBI agents arrange to return Rane to the plane, escorted by two agents, with plans to have a sniper take down Rane and allow them to storm the plane to save the hostages. However, the sniper is Vincent, who kills the escorts but is shot dead by Cutter, and Rane makes it inside safely. Rane orders the pilots to take off, while Cutter, with Biggs' help, manages to jump from

957-482: The theaters." So I did a couple of re-writes for them, for Warner Bros. who owned it, then I got another picture and came back and then it became a black movie." Raffill says his work only remains in the first quarter of the resulting film. Raffill could not think of a title for the film but noticed a bottle of ketchup and was inspired by the Heinz 57 mark to call the film Passenger 57. Although supposedly set partly at

990-642: Was cast in lead roles of other features, including Money Train , Drop Zone , Demolition Man , The Art of War , and the Blade trilogy . The film received mixed reviews. Critics praised Wesley Snipes and Bruce Payne's performances, but panned the script. On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 30% based on 27 reviews, with an average rating of 4.5/10. The consensus states: "Wesley Snipes tries to pilot Passenger 57 away from turbulence, but even he can't help this implausible coach-class action bomber from nose-diving." Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave

1023-460: Was composed by jazz bassist Stanley Clarke , and features both jazz fusion and more traditional grand orchestral pieces. A soundtrack album was issued by Epic Records on CD and cassette to coincide with the film's release. However, the main title theme was strangely omitted from it, and can instead be found on the later collection, Stanley Clarke: At the Movies . The track "Chaos on

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1056-419: Was released on November 6, 1992, and opened at number one rank in 1,734 theaters. The opening weekend receipts were $ 10,513,925. The film's final US domestic gross receipts were $ 44,065,653. Internationally, the film grossed $ 22,437,000, for a worldwide total of $ 66,502,653. Passenger 57 is one of the films that launched Wesley Snipes's career in the action genre. Because of this film's success, Wesley Snipes

1089-602: Was written as an action film for a guy like Clint Eastwood , about a man going to bury his son in Spain who sat next to an Iranian terrorist on the plane. The terrorist hijacks the plane and takes the passengers to Iran. Then the Clint Eastwood type character escapes, captures the Mullahs and holds them as prisoners in exchange for American prisoners. Raffill says "The head of the studio said to me, "If I make that movie, they'll blow up

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