Flyboys: Directed by Tony Bill. With James Franco, Scott Hazell, Mac McDonald, Philip Winchester. The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the coun
“I forced them into training in planes just like their characters,” Bill said. “I also talked to them about the realities of flying aerobatics … and things to expect in the air. Then we took them up, each of them, for two or three flights a day and filmed them in a real, ope...