Co-writers Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby began developing the plot while living together in a Hollywood apartment in the late 1970s, where low-flying police helicopters woke them on a regular basis. Their original script was a more political one, attacking the concept of a police state controlling the population through high-tech surveillance and heavy armament. They sought and received extensive script help from Captain Bob Woods, then-chief of the LAPD's Air Support Division. The first draft of the screenplay for Blue Thunder was written in 1979 and featured Frank Murphy as more of a crazy main character with deeper psychological issues, who went on a rampage and destroyed much of Los Angeles before finally falling to F-16s.
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Blue Thunder
(1982)1
" The Skies Will Never Be the Same!"
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Runtime | 1 hr 45 min |
Budget | $22 000 000 |
Premiere: World | February 5, 1983 |
Box Office – Budget | $20 313 354 |
Premiere: USA | $42 313 354 May 13, 1983 |
theaters | 1555 |
rollout | 233 days |
Digital: World | July 15, 2014 |
Parental Advisory | Profanity, Violence & Gore, Sex & Nudity, ... |
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Also Known As | Blue Thunder the Movie (United Kingdom) |