Blue Thunder | |
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Directed by | John Badham |
Written by | Dan O'Bannon Don Jakoby |
Produced by | Gordon Carroll Phil Feldman Andrew Fogelson |
Starring | |
Cinematography | John A. Alonzo |
Edited by | Edward M. Abroms Frank Morriss |
Music by | Arthur B. Rubinstein |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 109 minutes |
Country | United States |
Budget | $22 million[1] |
Box office | $42,313,354[2] |
Blue Thunder is a 1983 American action thriller film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Gordon Carroll, Phil Feldman, and Andrew Fogelson and directed by John Badham.
The Blue Thunder helicopter itself did exist as two copies of modified French AĆ©rospatiale Gazelles.
A spin-off television series, also called Blue Thunder, ran for 11 episodes in 1984.[3]