Apple TV is aiming to ramp up the tension sky-high with “The Flick,” a thriller centered on a heroic air traffic controller.
Apple Original Films has acquired “The Flick,” an unpublished short story by writer Matt Hickey, set in the high-stakes world of air traffic control.
Borys Kit for The Hollywood Reporter:
eter Chernin and David Ready will produce for The North Road Company’s Chernin Entertainment. The project marks one of the first features under Chernin Entertainment’s recently inked first-look feature deal with Apple TV+. Hickey, the author, will also produce.
The story follows a controller named Sonny Braden, who is already at his breaking point when he picks up a distress call from the cockpit of a plane whose pilot is unconscious. With storms closing in, dwindling fuel, and a panicked, pregnant passenger at the controls, Braden must talk her through an impossible landing while fighting his own exhaustion, guilt, and unraveling personal life.
The project is described as “a white-knuckle thriller about control, connection, and survival in the thin air between order and chaos, where every second counts.”
MacDailyNews Note: Hickey also wrote the Apple Original podcast series, Easy Money: The Charles Ponzi Story.
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