Based upon the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the film portrays the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel leader and director of the movie Heck's Angels The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes ended aviator nation zip up being a successful film manufacturer and an aeronautics tycoon while all at once expanding much more unpredictable as a result of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
The much yet short advertised flight of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was reasonably recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The movement control Spruce Goose and Hughes Hangar miniatures constructed by New Offer Studios get on display at the Evergreen Aeronautics Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the initial Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.
It is a historical impressive that concentrated on a key period in the life of Howard Hughes among one of the most renowned and arguably vital males of the twentieth century. Even if it's not a total success, nor one of his best films, I still find it to be a lot more amusing than the majority of scrap Hollywood blacks out on a regular basis.
Appearing at 169 mins, The Pilot tries to remain up, yet like Howard Hughes' much-too-big and much-too-heavy Spruce Goose (a.k.a. The Hercules), this cinematic jumbo can maintain itself airborne just a few mins at once. Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes and Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn The Pilot images: Miramax Detector Bros