SKYJACK: THE HUNT FOR D.B. COOPER To Be Directed by Will Glick

Movie by Joey Paur

Easy A director Will Glick is in talks to bring the legendary story of D.B. Cooper to the big screen. The movie will be an adaptation of the action-comedy novel written by Geoffrey Gray called Skyjack: The Hunt For D.B. Cooper.

For those of you not familiar with D.B. Cooper, on November 24th, 1971 he  hijacked a Boeing 727, extorted $200,000 in ransom, and then jumped out of the plane with a parachute over the Pacific Northwest to an uncertain fate. Despite an extensive manhunt and an exhaustive FBI investigation, which is still going on, Cooper has never been located or positively identified. The case remains the only unsolved case of air piracy in American aviation history. The book tracks his story from the perspectives of three different people claiming to be him.

This is such a interesting story, one that will definitely make for a great movie. Unsolved mysterys are always fun to play around with. I think Gluck is a fine choice to bring the story to life, I liked Easy A, and it will be interesting to what he has planned for this film. Gluck most recently wrote, directed, and produced the romantic comedy Friends With Benefits, with Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis.

For those of you familiar with the story, do you think Cooper got away with it, or do you think he died? 

Here's the description of the book:

“I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me.” 
 
That was the note handed to a stewardess by a mild-mannered passenger on a Northwest Orient flight in 1971. It was the start of one of the most astonishing whodunits in the history of American true crime: how one man extorted $200,000 from an airline, then parachuted into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and into oblivion. D. B. Cooper’s case has become the stuff of legend and obsessed and cursed his pursuers with everything from bankruptcy to suicidal despair. Now with Skyjack, journalist Geoffrey Gray delves into this unsolved mystery uncovering new leads in the infamous case.
 
Starting with a tip from a private investigator into a promising suspect (a Cooper lookalike, Northwest employee, and trained paratrooper), Gray is propelled into the murky depths of a decades-old mystery, conducting new interviews and obtaining a first-ever look at Cooper’s FBI file. Beginning with a heartstopping and unprecedented recreation of the crime itself, from cabin to cockpit to tower, and uncanny portraits of characters who either chased Cooper or might have committed the crime, including Ralph Himmelsbach, the most dogged of FBI agents, who watched with horror as a criminal became a counter-culture folk hero who supposedly shafted the system…Karl Fleming, a respected reporter whose career was destroyed by a Cooper scoop that was a scam…and Barbara (nee Bobby) Dayton, a transgendered pilot who insisted she was Cooper herself.
 
With explosive new information and exclusive access to FBI files and forensic evidence, Skyjack reopens one of the great cold cases of the 20th century.

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