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Strengths Specificity Causality and coherence Action, not decision Concision No hedging
Fairly straight forward. Might use the word "rookie" rather than "new" to describe the marshal. Might also add a ticking clock element to the logline to escalate the sense of urgency; that is, how many minutes he has to foil the terrorist's plan.
Obviously, the logline plot will be associated with the 911 tragedy. How is this fictional plot as dramatic as what really happened on 911? Is there a USP, a unique selling point, that distinguishes this fictional hijacking from the real hijackings (other than the target)?
Thanks for the suggestions. I was looking at flight 847 from 1985. We have an airplane in inventory and a White House Oval Office. I am trying to limit the locations to as few as possible. 911 got started somewhere....this may have been a model.
My point is that the 1st association, the primary reference point that will most likely come to mind for most readers of your logline (in the US of A, anyway) will be the hijackings on 9/11/2001. It's more recent and more deeply etched in individual and the collective consciousness than the terrorist hijackings in the 80's.
Just saying.
Thanks.
"Hijacked" is the correct spelling. Post-9/11, the cockpits are sealed and pilots won't open for any reason - even if every passenger is murdered at the door. F16s were scrambled during 9/11 and D.C. now has a battery of surface-to-air missiles. So I don't believe it'd be possible to hijack a plane in 2026 and, were it done, the plane would be blown out of the sky in a matter of minutes before it reached a population center.
UNITED 93 did a compelling look at a 9/11 hijacking, btw.
You also have no protagonist description other than he's the U.S. Marshall on the plane, so perhaps get into the 'DIE HARD on a plan' spin suggesting his arc.
Good point on the security factors. For the scenario to seem plausible, the hijacking would have to occur before 9/11.
When a flight from NY to LA is high jacked, a rookie US Marshal must take down a terrorist before he crashes an airplane into a sports arena.