Aaron Sorkin’s “Shadow Flyers” Will Be About Israeli Air Force.

Last week I wrote about Aaron Sorkin setting his next directorial project at Warner Bros. titled “Shadow Flyers”. no plot details were revealed at that time.

Deadline now confirms that the film will tackle the founding of the Israeli Air Force, and tell the story of Al Schwimmer — the unlikely father or Israeli Air Force.

The excellent word-smith Sorkin will write a script telling the story of Al Schwimmer, a post-WWII arms smuggler who helped create Israel’s Air Force, which helped the fledging country survive and become a major military power since it’s inception in 1948.

“Schwimmer, a decorated World War II veteran from Connecticut, masterminded a covert, illegal, international operation that has been described as “one part Argo and one part Mission Impossible.” Along the way, he was helped by the likes of Bugsy Siegel’s publicist, mafia member Meyer Lansky, Pee-wee Herman’s dad Milton Rubenfeld, and Frank Sinatra.

“Shadow Flyers” is set to be Sorkin’s fourth film as a director, after “The Trial Of The Chicago 7”, “Being The Ricardos” and 2018’s excellent “Molly’s Game”. However Sorkin is primarily known as a screenwriter, an Oscar winner, whose notable works include “The Social Network”, “Moneyball” and TV’s “The West Wing” and “The Network”.

Sorkin is also separately working on a continuation of ground he covered in his script for “The Social Network”, with some reports calling it a story on January 6 DC riots. Sorkin described this project as “a quasi-sequel” to “The Social Network”.