Shadow in the Cloud
Shadow in the Cloud is a 2020 action horror film directed by Roseanne Liang, from a screenplay by Liang and Max Landis, starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Beulah Koale, Taylor John Smith, Callan Mulvey and Nick Robinson. It follows a female flight officer on a top-secret mission in the Pacific during the Second World War, who after boarding a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, encounters an evil gremlin during the flight.
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| Story by | Max Landis
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| Music by | Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper
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| Cinematography | Kit Fraser
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| Running time | 83 minutes
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| Language | English
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| Box office | $908,792
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John Reeves: They're called propellers, baby. And they help us fly.
- During WWII the Women Airforce Service Pilots -- WASP for short, was created by the USAAF. These lady pilots, more than 1,100 flew military aircraft. Single to multi-engine aircraft. From non-combat like transports and spotters, to fighters and bombers including the B-17, B-26, and B-29 bombers. Henry "Hap" Arnold said he wasn't sure "whether a slip of a girl could fight the controls of a B-17 in heavy weather." Later he ate crow and admitted how wrong he really was when he said "Now in 1944, it is on the record that women can fly as well as any man!"
- The gremlins have a monkey like body structure but are repeatedly referred to as resembling rodents. Given the national origin of the film and the company involved in the CGI (Weta Digital), it might be more than a coincidence that the gremlins share quite a bit of their looks with the Rat monkey featured in New Zealander and Weta Workshop co-owner Peter Jackson's Braindead (1992).
- Whilst it may be claimed to be incorrect that the female aviator is a Captain in the US Army Air Corps, female pilots were used to ferry finished planes from the assembling factories to the air bases from which they would fly operationally. In Britain female pilots would single-handedly deliver Lancaster bombers to the RAF Air Bases, sometimes flying two or three a day totally alone and eating their meals as they flew. It's not an unusual or inaccurate concept to have an American pilot doing the same, even if her credentials are inaccurate.
- The original screenplay penned by Max Landis was heavily rewritten during pre-production by director Roseanne Liang due to sexual harassment allegations made against Landis at the time. Liang and lead star Chloë Grace Moretz say Landis was completely distanced from the production and that his screenplay was rewritten several times before filming began. However, after watching the film Landis claims that about 90-95% of the script is still his.
- Nick Robinson (Beckell) and Chloë Grace Moretz (Garrett) both appeared in "The 5th Wave" in 2016.
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