The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln welcomed aboard more than 80 people from Columbia Pictures's "Stealth" this week for filming onboard, including actors Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx, Sam Shepard and director Rob Cohen. The Abe's flight deck hosted twelve squadrons for carrier qualifications and the film crew, along with a 53-foot-long futuristic stealth fighter named "Talon" according to Navy News.
Cohen told the paper "Filming a major Hollywood movie during flight (operations) is a very tricky and different thing. This is real life out here, and it's amazing that the Navy is allowing us to be here and bring our own aircraft on the ship. I'm very grateful to the Navy for this. The Navy passed every page of the script, so they feel good about it, and I feel good about what this film will say about the Navy".
In the film, Navy officials decide to use an unmanned version of the "Talon," but when one of the planes begins attacking friendly forces, Navy pilots are called in to save the planet from artificial intelligence. Cohen had a startling experience that awoke him from a sound sleep. "They primed the catapults about two in the morning, and I thought, 'Oh my God, we've been torpedoed!' I jumped so high out of my bunk that I hit my head on the shelf".
Biel is also having problems - "I've been lost every day. I still can't get to my room. I have to ask people all of the time just to help me find the bathroom, but it's been incredible how helpful everyone has been. You really have no idea how hard everybody works until you come on to a carrier. The teamwork on this ship is absolutely amazing"
Thanks to 'Chris'
