New Movie, Last Flight To Abuja Debuts

A new movie “Last Flight to Abuja” produced by popular film maker, Obi Emelonye is set to hit movie shelves across Africa. The film which was inspired by the incessant cases of plane crashes in Nigeria has won many awards at film festivals across Europe and America, capping it with the Best film by an African Abroad prize which it won at the 2013 African movie Academy Awards in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State last month.

The film grossed N8.5 million in seven days, according to official Nigerian cinema rating, beating major Hollywood blockbusters such as ‘Spiderman,’ ‘Think like a man,’ ‘Avengers’ and ‘Madagascar’ and was second only to the highly rated block buster, “Dark Knight Rises,” during the cinema screenings last year.

The cast and crew led by Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Jim Iyke, Jide Kosoko and Obi Emelon ye would be handling out flight tickets to London winners who would emerge in a lucky dip. However, only fans of the film who complete and return the lucky dip coupons contained in their film jackets would be qualified for the draw.

Last flight to Abuja, also the first Nollywood film to be shot mostly on an airplane also featured the likes of Hakeem Kac Kazim, Ali Nuhu, Jide Kosoko, Olumide Bakare, Franca Brown, Uche Odoputa, Anthony Monjaro, Uru Eke and Celine Loader amongst others.

The movie is set in Nigeria and captured a grougp of everyday Nigerian travellers who boarded the last flamingo Airways flight scheduled to fly from Lagos the commercial city to Abuja the capital city, on a fateful Friday night in 2006. Everything seemed alright as the plane was crashing at 30,000 feet, tranquil and on schedule.

But like a snap of the finger, through a mixture of human error, technical failure and sheer bad luck, the plain rapidly develops major difficulties that send it battling on the brink of disaster.