- This was originally conceived as a fictitious story but, whilst doing research, the writers discovered something very similar had occurred, so decided to let that influence their script.
- Sean Penn was attached to this project for six years before they found the financing for it.
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- SPOILER: Loosely based on the life and death of Samuel Joseph Byck, who on 22 February 1974 attempted to hijack a Delta Air Lines DC-9 at Baltimore-Washington International Airport, in order to crash it into the White House and kill President Richard M. Nixon.
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