Originally Posted by
chopper2004
Not quite ....
Under Siege movie was not based anything like Final Flight (bar take over of UsN warship and use nukes) ..no writing credits to Stephen Coonts
The appearance and subsequent destruction lol of CH-46 Sea Knight ( actually civilian Columbia Helicopters KV-107) , and there was no AH-1 but a CHI of an Ah-64A escorting another Sea Knight (which Captain Garza says it’s a CH-53E lifting off with SEAL reinforcements).
Thr F/A-18 pilot laughingly doesn’t appear to wear an LCJ lol!
Under Siege novel is good reminds me of Tom Clancys Clear And Present Danger about the drugs war. Jake is still a Captain and battling narco terrorists on the streets of the capitol. Interesting enough there’s an character in the book , an undercover narcotics cop called Harrison Ronald Ford a.k.a Zizzy.
cheers
I couldn't remember if it was Cobras or Apaches and I wasn't going to dig out the VHS recorder to watch the tape. True, that it didn't have anything to do with Final Flight, bar the basic plot premise of a bunch of Terrorists / Crooks taking over a large US Navy warship and trying to steal nuclear weapons on board. Of course it killed any chance of Final Flight being made, but the Flight of the Intruder film had already done that anyway as it bombed at the box office massive. Loved the book didn't think much of the film bar the casting of Defoe as Cole. But Defoe is normally very good in any role he plays anyway. The special effects were dire as well. A couple of Richard Hermam's books would have made good films. the Warbirds and Force of Eagles. However like a lot of other books based around that 1980-90 period, massively overtaken by events. Red Storm could only be done as a mini series and special effects required to do it justice would have been very much cost prohibitive.