Welcome to Flight Club. Yes, production is moving forward on War Birds, the tale of an underground culture of illegal aerial combat. Huh. You wouldn't think they could find many cellars big enough for the planes.
But seriously, folks, the story (by Michael B. Chait, who's also directing and producing) focuses on a former Air Force pilot who becomes an airshow re-enactment pilot after leaving the service, and despite his recklessness. Then he gets pulled into "the underground culture of illegal, real-life aerial combat". We'd never heard of such a thing around here, but if it's in a movie it must exist, right?
Shooting is due to take place in Michigan this summer, using real planes including "P-51 Mustangs, P-38 Lightnings, F4U Corsairs and a B-17 Flying Fortress" - which does kinda make it sound awesome. We'd have thought those'd be too big to keep particularly under wraps, but we're sure the film will explain.
Chait wrote the story, but Bryan Binder and Josh Staman wrote the script, which then received a polish by Richard Jefferies (Cold Creek Manor and the upcoming Tron Legacy).