Genre: Action/Thriller.
Studio:
Paramount Pictures.
Production Company:
Paramount Pictures/MK Productions/Flying Heart Productions.
Project Phase: Limbo.
Who's Was In It:
Bruce Willis.
Who's Was Making It:
Walter Hill (Director, out?); Robert Stitzel, Patrick Duncan (Screenwriters);
Mario Kassar, Bruce Willis (Producers).
Premise: A Vietnam vetran fighter pilot wants to end his life by dying in aerial combat, and he steals a vintage F-16 to do so. The American Air Force has the unenviable task of bringing the rogue pilot down, dead or alive.
Lost in Limbo: Early 1998.
Comments: None.
Rumors: Unknown.
Scoop Feedback:
August 4, 1996... [Project information supplied by Christian.]
August 22, 1996... Walter Hill boards the plane as director. Production is slated to start in December. [Scoops mailed in by Christian and 'compukiller'.]
November 5, 1996... While browsing the Lockheed Martin Corporation web page this scooper found a picture of Bruce Willis and an airforce pilot in front of an F-16 Falcon. Nothing was mentioned on the page about the movie, but it could have somthing to do with it. The scooper provides the address 'http://www.lmco.com/photo/a-z.html' for any interested viewers. [Scoop sent in by 'rpeg'.]
December 26, 1996... Icarus begins shooting in January '97, with a hopeful November/December release. [Scoop sent in by 'yunglyfe'; originally appeared in The Hollywood Reporter.]
February 8, 1998... This project's just been shuffled to Paramount's '$0 budget' list; meaning: it's been cancelled. [Scoop sent in by 'Capt. Doghouse'.]
February 10, 1998... A scoop sent in earlier than the February 8th one has turned up: in it, the writer says Walter Hill is definitely out of the project, and Paramount is hiring an A-list writer to pen a fast rewrite, " then Icarus should finally fly." [Anonymous.]