Airplane! watch as "Otto" takes control of the plane, inflates a female companion, and takes off. Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker (collectively known as Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, or ZAZ), wrote "Airplane!" while they were performing with the Kentucky Fried Theatre, a small theatre they had founded in 1971. To obtain material for comedy routines, they routinely recorded late night television and reviewed the tapes later primarily to pull the commercials, a process Abrahams compared to "seining for fish". During one such taping process, they unintentionally recorded the 1957 film "Zero Hour!", and while scanning the commercials, found that
Superhero Movie Stephen Hawking. Superhero Movie Superhero Movie is a 2008 American superhero comedy film written and directed by Craig Mazin, produced by Robert K. Weiss and David Zucker, and starring Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, and Leslie Nielsen. It was originally titled "Superhero!" as a nod to one of the Zuckers' previous films, "Airplane!", in which Nielsen also starred. A spoof of the superhero film genre, primarily the first "Spider-Man", as well as other modern-day Marvel Comics film adaptations, the film follows in the footsteps of the "Scary Movie" series of comedies, with which the film's poster shares a resemblance.