Strategic Command is a 1997 air hijack film directed by Rick Jacobson, starring Michael Dudikoff, and co-starring Richard Norton, Paul Winfield, Bryan Cranston, and Stephen Quadros.IMDb - Strategic Command The film was written by Sean McGinly and Tripp Reed.
Plot
Rick Harding (Michael Dudikoff) is a former US Marine officer, now working as biological weapons scientist for the FBI. Harding's lab is infiltrated, which results in terrorists getting their hands on a deadly nerve agent, Bromax 365. Led by Carlos Gruber (Richard Norton), the terrorists hijack Air Force Two, the aircraft of the vice president), a Boeing VC-25 en route from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. Harding must participate in a midair effort to retake the plane and save his wife and the vice President.
Cast Michael Dudikoff as Dr. Rick Harding Amanda Wyss as Michelle Harding Richard Norton as Carlos Gruber Paul Winfield as Rowan Stephen Quadros as Vlos Bryan Cranston as Phil Hertzberg
Production and reception
The aircraft pictured in this film features the prototype Boeing 747 (in its red and black livery) and the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, changes from the original 1996 source film Executive Decision, which shows an Oceanic Airlines 747 and the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, respectively.
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