Flight of the Phoenix (2004)

Flight of the Phoenix is a 2004 American survival drama film directed by John Moore and written by Scott Frank and Edward Burns. The film is a remake of the 1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix, both based on the 1964 novel by Elleston Trevor, about a group of people who survive an aircraft crash in a desert and must build a new aircraft out of the old one to escape. It stars Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi, Tyrese Gibson, Miranda Otto and Hugh Laurie.

Flight of the Phoenix was filmed on location in the Namib Desert, and was released in the United States on December 17, 2004, by 20th Century Fox. The film was a box-office bomb and received generally mixed reviews, with critics negatively comparing it to the original 1965 film but praising the updated visuals, shorter runtime and action sequences.