Sky Fighters (French title Les Chevaliers du ciel, literal translation The Knights of the sky) is a 2005 French film directed by Gérard Pirès (Taxi) about two air force pilots preventing a terrorist attack on the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris. It is based on Tanguy et Laverdure, a comics series by Jean-Michel Charlier and Albert Uderzo which was also made into a hugely successful TV series from 1967 to 1969 making Tanguy and Laverdure, the t...
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Sky Fighters (French title Les Chevaliers du ciel, literal translation The Knights of the sky) is a 2005 French film directed by Gérard Pirès (Taxi) about two air force pilots preventing a terrorist attack on the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris. It is based on Tanguy et Laverdure, a comics series by Jean-Michel Charlier and Albert Uderzo which was also made into a hugely successful TV series from 1967 to 1969 making Tanguy and Laverdure, the two main heroes, part of French popular culture.
The film starts out at the Farnborough Airshow where a demo Mirage 2000-5 is stolen. Captains Antoine Walk'n Marchelli (Benoît Magimel) and Sébastien Fahrenheit Vallois (Clovis Cornillac) are instructed to escort it back. They find the rogue Mirage flying stealthy under a Qatar Airways Airbus A340. They get the order to abort when the rogue Mirage is about to fire on Fahrenheit. Walk'n is forced to shoot the demo Mirage down when it is about to fire a R550 Magic missile at his wingman, disobeying...
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