Overview
- Based on an unpublished short story by Matt Hickey, The Flick follows air traffic controller Sonny Braden during a high-pressure emergency.
- Peter Chernin and David Ready will produce for Chernin Entertainment, and Hickey is also attached as a producer.
- The project expands Apple’s collaboration with Chernin Entertainment, which has previously delivered titles such as Chief of War and See.
- The story was developed by Will Malnati’s At Will Media, and a screenwriter for the adaptation has not been announced.
- Reporting notes the acquisition occurred before a government shutdown that has recently put real-world air traffic control in the spotlight.