Trailer Alert: 'Flight Risk,' Directed by Mel Gibson, Stars Mark Wahlberg as a Psychopathic Mob Hitman

In Mel Gibson's newest feature film, Flight Risk, which premiered on Thursday, Mark Wahlberg plays the role of a wilderness pilot-turned-psychotic hitman in the official trailer.

In a scene reminiscent of Con Air, Wahlberg, who plays Daryl, pilots a plane carrying Michelle Dockery's air marshal Madolyn and Topher Grace's fugitive on their way to New York City for the upcoming trial of the Moretti crime family.

While flying over Alaska, the trailer's score plays a cover of "Psycho Killer" by the Talking Heads, and Daryl's true identity as a balding mob assassin out to eliminate the snitch comes to light. The trailer is included below:

Madolyn successfully subdues and handcuffs the pilot after a skirmish at 10,000 feet, but she now needs assistance in keeping everyone aloft. She begs, "Tell me how to fly this thing or we will die out here."

Gibson returns to the director's chair on October 18 with his first feature since 2016's Hacksaw Ridge, and it features numerous aerial sequences. This film, just like in the case of Hacksaw Ridge, is also distributed worldwide by Lionsgate. 

Along with Bruce Davey, John Davis, and John Fox of Davis Entertainment, Gibson is a producer on Flight Risk, the screenplay of which is writter by Jared Rosenberg.

While Gibson has worked with Wahlberg before in Daddy's Home 2 and Father Stu, this is the first film in which Gibson serves as director.

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