I wonder if you could you move?

No, something's been in my hand.

I wonder if you could tell me a little bit about the movie Fly Boys.

Just get out of here, Rowling.

Fly Boys is a World War I movie.

That's Reeves Whiteman from New York Magazine.

There's obviously a lot of World War II movies that have been made, but this one's actually World War I.

It's about a group of pilots.

It stars James Franco as kind of the leader of this group of American pilots who go over to Europe.

In this scene, they are deep in battle.

James Franco, his character is named Rawlings, is trying to free his friend's hand,

which is trapped under a crashed plane on the front lines. His friend, whose name is Beagle,

is played by David Ellison.

Raleigh, please just go. I'm not going to leave you.

Right after this, he chops off Beagle's hand. Elison wasn't just an actor in the movie. He and his family were key to getting it

made. It came out in 2006 and it had sort of a tortured history where the producer had been trying to

make the film had struggled to get the money to fund the movie. It was $60 million, which was not

cheap, especially 20 years ago.

But he eventually found out that David Ellison, who was at the time in college at USC Film School,

was trying to get into Hollywood, and that his father was Larry Ellison, who at the time was

among the 10 or so richest men in the world. And long story short, the producers of this

film got their money from Larry, who agreed to fund much of the the budget for this production

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