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Best Impact of Music in a Feature Film Directors Choice | 2008 | Tony
Best Impact of Music in a Feature Film Audience Choice | 2008 | Tony
Best ActionAdventureThriller Film | 2007
Best Music | 2007 | Trevor
Best Costume | 2007 | Nic
Budget 60,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 17,834,865 USD
The real Lafayette Escadrille actually had a pair of lion cubs as mascots. One was indeed named "Whiskey," as in the film. The other, appropriately enough, was named "Soda."
James Franco earned his pilot's license in preparation for this film.
As no studios would back the film, a group of filmmakers and investors including producer 'Dean Devlin (I)' and (according to press-releases) "ace pilot" David Ellison, son of Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison, spent more than $60 million of their own money to make and market this film.
The character of Skinner is based on the Escadrille-pilot Eugene Bullard, an American who had gone to France and worked as a boxer there. He was also a son of a slave, just like Skinner. Bullard was rejected from the Lafayette Escadrille by a prejudiced white man. He served in another escadrille in the Lafayette Flying Corps.
The character of Beagle, chose the name to escape a sordid past. The writers chose Beagle in honour of Snoopy, who as a Beagle, often fought the Red Baron in the Peanuts comic strip.
"Captain Thenault: We don't want you bringing bullets home; we have millions. Leave the bullets up there. Let the Germans take them home."
"Reed Cassidy: Some day it'll just end. Everyone will go home, get on with their lives. Tall grass will cover the battlefields. And all the pilots we've lost won't mean a damn thing."
