Based upon the 1993 non-fiction publication Howard Hughes: The Secret Life by Charles Higham, the movie shows the life of Howard Hughes, an aeronautics leader and director of the movie Heck's Angels The film represents his life from 1927 to 1947 throughout which time Hughes came to be an effective film manufacturer and an air travel mogul while concurrently growing more unstable due to extreme obsessive-compulsive condition (OCD).

The short but much advertised trip of Hughes' HK-1 Hercules on November 2, 1947, was realistically recreated in the Port of Long Coastline The motion control Spruce Goose and Hughes Garage minis constructed by New Bargain Studios get on screen at the Evergreen Aviation Gallery in McMinnville, Oregon, with the original Hughes H-1 Spruce Goose.

Besides, Hughes is barely averse at risking his life in various other means, ending up being a record-smashing flying ace and later obtaining TWA off the ground a lot to the dismay of competing Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of Pan Am. The aviator nation sweatshirt sizing with Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.

The filmmakers needed to concentrate both on previous accounts of Hughes' behaviors along with the moment duration, considered that when Hughes was dealing with the condition, there was no psychiatric interpretation wherefore ailed him. Shot in Montreal, 5 The Pilot was launched in the United States on December 25, 2004, to favorable evaluations with doubters commending Scorsese's instructions, its cinematography and the efficiencies by DiCaprio and Blanchett.