Out on Apple TV is John Travolta’s directorial debut ‘Propeller One-Way Night Coach’ based on his own 1997 book and starring his daughter and a small role for himself. With decades of film behind him as a star he had plenty of experience to draw on and Travolta takes Tarantino tips on directing as well as several other notable directors.
How did Travolta’s directing debut come about?
The film is only an hour long and follows young aviation enthusiast Jeff and his mother on a cross-country flight to Hollywood that transforms into a life-changing journey filled with unexpected moments.
The film, based on his own flying experience, has been in the making for years with the star insisting that, “only I can connect these dots the way it should be connected” when it came to his insistence on directing the film.
Travolta takes Tarantino tips
The film debuted at Cannes where he was awarded an honorary Palme D’or. Since then the film premiered at LA and when asking about directing he said, ‘“I feel that in the 50-plus years I’ve watched directors, I’ve watched great ones, I’ve watched good ones, I’ve watched OK ones, I’ve watched mediocre ones and I’ve watched bad ones, and you sift out what they did right, what they did wrong. I only used the successful actions of the great ones — Robert Altman, Mike Nichols, Quentin Tarantino, Tony Scott, John Woo, Brian De Palma.”
He then went on to reveal that he “showed an early cut to a very famous person who’s also director and they gave me one note, which was excellent,” but declined to reveal who that very famous person was.
We’re guessing it wasn’t Roger Christian who helmed the cinematic atrocity that was the scientology themed ‘Battlefield Earth’ that bombed.
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Here’s Travolta and his daughter chatting about the making of ‘Propeller One-Way Night Coach’….
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