Based upon the 1993 non-fiction book Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie illustrates the life of Howard Hughes, an air travel pioneer and bookmarks supervisor of the movie Hell's Angels The film depicts his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes became a successful film producer and an aviation mogul while at the same time growing a lot more unstable due to serious obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
The much yet short declared 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 minis built by New Deal Studios get on screen at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.
Besides, Hughes is hardly averse at risking his life in various other ways, coming to be a record-smashing flying ace and later on obtaining TWA off the ground much to the dismay of rival 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 focus both on previous accounts of Hughes' actions in addition to the time duration, considered that when Hughes was suffering from the disorder, there was no psychiatric meaning of what troubled him. Shot in Montreal, 5 The Pilot was launched in the United States on December 25, 2004, to favorable reviews with movie critics praising Scorsese's instructions, its cinematography and the efficiencies by DiCaprio and Blanchett.