John Travolta says he’s unsure he’ll direct again after making his feature directorial debut at the Cannes Film Festival with the deeply personal aviation drama “Propeller One-Way Night Coach.”
The Hollywood icon, who also wrote, produced, financed, narrated and cast family members (including daughter Ella Bleu Travolta) in the film, told Reuters the experience was “all-consuming” and overwhelming — though manageable because of its personal connection to his love of flying. The movie, which premiered out of competition, will arrive on Apple TV+ on May 29.
Reuters:
“When people say, ‘Would you direct again?’ – I have to be passionate because it’s all-consuming, so you have to love it that much,” said the screen legend, admitting that making “Propeller One-Way Night Coach” was at times overwhelming.
However, because of its deeply personal nature – about a young aviation fan who takes a fateful flight to Los Angeles in the golden age of flying in the 1950s and 1960s – he could handle it, he said.
“It was me being overwhelmed with the things I love and my family and my friends,” Travolta, an experienced pilot, said at the festival.
Travolta cast several of his relatives, including his daughter, Ella Bleu Travolta, who said watching her experienced family members work on set “felt like a master class.”
Travolta, produced, financed, directed, narrated and wrote the film based on a book he published some three decades ago.
MacDailyNews Note: Set in the golden age of aviation, a young airplane enthusiast, Jeff (played by newcomer Clark Shotwell), and his mother (Kelly Eviston-Quinnett) set off on a one-way cross-country odyssey to Hollywood, which transforms a simple flight into the trip of a lifetime. Between airline meals, charming flight attendants (played by Ella Bleu Travolta and Olga Hoffmann), unexpected stopovers, larger-than-life passengers and a thrilling glimpse at first class, the journey unfolds in moments both magical and unexpected, charting the course for the boy’s future.
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