Based upon the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie shows the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics leader and supervisor of the film Hell's Angels The movie represents his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes came to be an effective film producer and Bookmarks an aeronautics magnate while concurrently expanding more unpredictable because of serious obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Ironically, as far as this customer is worried the most mixing, many memorable moment in Martin Scorsese and John Logan's The Pilot isn't the (undoubtedly impressive) airborne battle at the beginning of the film, or the plane accident later on, or any one of the social goings-on.
Besides, Hughes is barely averse in jeopardy his life in various other means, ending up being a record-smashing flying ace and later obtaining TWA off the ground much to the discouragement of competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Frying pan Am. The Pilot with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.
The filmmakers had to concentrate both on previous accounts of Hughes' actions along with the time period, considered that when Hughes was experiencing the condition, there was no psychological definition wherefore ailed him. Shot in Montreal, 5 The Pilot was released in the USA on December 25, 2004, to favorable reviews with doubters praising Scorsese's instructions, its cinematography and the performances by DiCaprio and Blanchett.