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The story features a group of men stranded in the Sahara
Desert following a plane crash. With no way out, they
try to build a plane using pieces from the wreckage.
The original 'Phoenix', directed by Robert Aldrich,
starred James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter
Finch, Hardy Kruger, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen,
Ronald Fraser and George Kennedy.
In the original 1965 pre-CGI movie, they actually
built a plane and flew it, with the James Stewart
character making the amazingly prophetic comment,
`now the men with their calculators and computers
will soon be taking over the world'.
The updated version is described by Fox sources as
a reinvention of the original with contemporary circumstances
set in the Mongolian desert. Production is slated
to begin in October.
Davis teamed with Moore on 'Behind Enemy Lines' for
Fox. Quaid most recently starred on the big screen
in Focus Features' 'Far From Heaven' and the Walt
Disney Co'.s 'The Rookie'. He next stars in Fox's
'The Day After Tomorrow' and Disney's 'The Alamo'
and 'Cold Creek Manor'.
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