‘7500’ is the emergency code for an airplane hijacking and the title of an upcoming high-octane Amazon thriller.
The studio dropped a chilling new trailer for the Joseph Gordon-Levitt drama about every traveler’s worst nightmare on Wednesday.
In the film, Gordon-Levitt plays a pilot forced into a sticky situation mid-flight when a group of terrorists try to take control of the aircraft.
Terror in the skies: Amazon Studios dropped a new trailer for the upcoming thriller 7500, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the pilot of a plane hijacked by terrorists
The dimly lit preview opens with the flight crew embarking on a nighttime trip from Berlin to Paris.
The pilots prepare for a routine flight and the flight attendants get the passengers settled and, before take off, one pretty attendant plants a kiss on Gordon-Levitt.
All seems well until several men start attacking passengers and attempting to overtake the cockpit with make-shift weapons.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Tobias, a co-pilot who is forced to take control of the flight after his fellow pilot gets severely injured in the scuffle with the attackers.
Routine: The dimly lit preview opens with the flight crew embarking on a nighttime trip from Berlin to Paris
Not so friendly skies: Gordon-Levitt plays a pilot forced into a sticky situation mid-flight when a group of terrorists try to take control of the aircraft
Business as usual: The pilots prepare for a routine flight and the flight attendants get the passengers settled
Love story: One of the flight attendants plants a kiss on Gordon-Levitt’s character Tobias before take-off
Taking a turn: All seems well until several men start attacking passengers and attempting to overtake the cockpit with make-shift weapons
‘They have a hostage, they’re going to kill him if I don’t open the door,’ he says to ground control.
The clip sees Gordon-Levitt struggle with his inability to help the passengers as he is advised time and again by ground control that, under no circumstances, is he allowed to open the door of the cockpit.
It appears that most of the action in the thriller happens while the 39-year-old actor remains trapped between all the gizmos in the cockpit, watching the terror unfold in the main cabin via surveillance screens.
‘Let her go, please, please I beg you, please,’ he implores the hijackers through tears after they hold another passenger hostage.
Help! ‘7500’ is the emergency code for an airplane hijacking
Vantage point: It appears that most of the action in the thriller happens while the pilot remains trapped between all the gizmos in the cockpit, watching the terror unfold in the main cabin via surveillance screens
This is your captain speaking: Throughout the preview, Pilot Tobias tries to talk to both the passengers and the terrorists on the intercom
‘They have a hostage, they’re going to kill him if I don’t open the door,’ he says to ground control.
‘Let her go, please, please I beg you, please,’ he implores the hijackers through tears after they hold another passenger hostage.
The emotion is felt through the screen as the young co-pilot screams in fear and frustration while still managing to keep the plane on course.
In the trailer, which is a bit over a minute long, it seems that Tobias’ central struggle is wanting to leave his small, and for the time being safe, enclave to assist the passengers.
At one point he gets on the P.A. system and tries to encourage the group to fight the terrorists themselves.
The pilot shouts: ‘They don’t have guns! They don’t have knives! If you work together you can beat them!’
Flight plan: The emotion is felt through the screen as the young co-pilot screams in fear and frustration while still managing to keep the plane on course
Hostage: It seems that Tobias’ central struggle is wanting to leave his small, and for the time being safe, enclave to assist the passengers
Casualties: Through the surveillance cameras, the pilot can see the destruction happening beyond the small cockpit
Expressly forbidden: Ground control repeatedly reminds the pilot that, under no circumstances, is he allowed to open the door of the cockpit
Authentic: For the production, Collider reported that the studio purchased a real plane, an Airbus, and ‘manipulated the front third of the aircraft for filming’
At the end of the trailer, it seems as though the terrorists have succeeded in getting inside the cockpit and Gordon-Levitt is left bloody and panting while someone holds a bloody shard of glass toward his face.
For the production, Collider reported that the studio purchased a real plane, an Airbus, and ‘manipulated the front third of the aircraft for filming.’ The front third of the plane includes the first few rows of seats and the ‘food-prep area.’
‘The plane was then hoisted on a pneumatic rig that allowed it to be shaken by hand to simulate turbulence,’ Collider said.
7500 streams on Amazon Prime Video on June 19.
The pilot shouts on the intercom to the passengers: ‘They don’t have guns! They don’t have knives! If you work together you can beat them!’
Arrivals: 7500 streams on Amazon Prime Video on June 19