Strategic Command (film)


Strategic Command is a 1997 air hijack direct-to-video film directed by Rick Jacobson, starring Michael Dudikoff, and co-starring Richard Norton, Paul Winfield, Bryan Cranston, and Stephen Quadros. The film was written by Sean McGinly and Tripp Reed.

Plot

Rick Harding 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, 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

Production and reception

The aircraft pictured in this film features the prototype Boeing 747 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.