That led to the Roy Scheider vehicle, Blue Thunder, making an impressive $42 million in 1983, doubling its budget thanks to a helicopter-based action plot that presaged Top Gun by combining a ...

That’s right, Blue Thunder the helicopter was often replaced by Rolling Thunder the van, driven by ex-NFL stars Dick Butkus and Bubba Smith. Also gone were stars Roy Scheider and Daniel Stern.

'Fifty Shades' producer Dana Brunetti is developing a modern take on the 1983 action thriller for Sony with the titular helicopter being replaced by the world's most advanced drone.

Cop Roy Scheider, whose idea of a good time is using a high-tech surveillance system to peer down girls dresses from 500 feet, is given the Blue Thunder, a super-duper police helicopter which ...

The original Blue Thunder, directed byJohn Badham and starring Roy Scheider, followed the pilot of a police helicopter nicknamed Blue Thunder. The helicopter was devised to counteract civil ...

THR reports Columbia Pictures is developing a remake of Blue Thunder, an action thriller from 1983 about a Los Angeles police pilot (Roy Scheider) tasked with learning to fly a new specially ...

Roy Scheider plays Frank Murphy, ... which is a helicopter gunship designed to quell riots ... Blue Thunder is an above average action movie from an era where CGI wasn’t an alternative to doing ...

The original film used a helicopter as its central weapon. Blue Thunder, released in 1983, starred Roy Scheider as a pilot who operated the military-style helicopter of the title.

Roy Scheider, the small-town cop in 'Jaws' died Sunday in Little Rock, Ark., of complications from a staph infection. ... (1982) and John Badham’s action spectacular “Blue Thunder” (1983).