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Robert Zemeckis in Talks for Live-Action 'Flight' With Denzel Washington Circling

John Gatins wrote the script about a pilot who saves a flight from an engine malfunction but is revealed to be a substance abuser.

Robert Zemeckis is back, baby. Not only that, the Oscar-winning director-producer of Forrest Gump, Cast Away and Back to the Future is returning to live-action filmmaking after years of working only on performance-capture movies like the recent bomb Mars Needs Moms.