Les Chevaliers du ciel
Les Chevaliers du ciel (Sky Fighters) is a 2005 French film directed by Gérard Pirès about two air force pilots preventing a terrorist attack on the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris. It is based on Tanguy et Laverdure, a comics series by Jean-Michel Charlier and Albert Uderzo (of Astérix fame) which was also made into a hugely successful TV series from 1967 to 1969, making the characters of Tanguy and Laverdure a part of popular Francophone culture.
Plot
At the Farnborough Airshow, a rogue group hijacks a Mirage 2000-10 after killing its pilot. French Air Force pilots Captain Antoine "Walk'n" Marchelli (Benoît Magimel) and Captain Sébastien "Fahrenheit" Vallois (Clovis Cornillac) are instructed to escort it back. When the rogue pilot attempts to fire a missile at Vallois, Marchelli is forced to destroy the stolen Mirage. The French "Special Missions" department, seeking to blackmail Marchelli into working for them, tampers with the video from Marchelli's gun camera. A subsequent court-martial finds Marchelli guilty of destroying the stolen Mirage without provocation and discharges him from the air force, prompting Vallois to resign as well.
More details
| author | Albert Uderzo Gérard Pirès Jean-Michel Charlier |
|---|---|
| director | Gérard Pirès |
| events | aviation |
| genre | live-action |
| keywords | air force pilot bastille day cannonball baker sea-to-shining-sea memorial trophy dash cannonball run capture dassault mirage 2000 farnborough airshow force french air force gun camera horn of africa kill mirage 2000-10 special missions steal |
| musicBy | Chris Corner |
| producer | Eric Altmayer Nicolas Altmayer |
| publisher | Pathé |
| recordedAt | Châteaudun Air Base Djibouti Dreux-Louvilliers Air Base Orange-Caritat Air Base Paris |
| theme | action |