Tamara Tunie takes 'Flight'

Tamara Tunie ("Law & Order: SVU") remains attracted onto co-star opposite Denzel Washington in Paramount's "Flight." Robert Zemeckis is helming with production beginning later this month in Atlanta. Put together by John Gatins, "Flight" concentrates on an airline travel pilot with substance abuse issues who steers an endangered flight with a crash-landing, saving many of the people. Tunie plays charge flight attendant who's asked within a routine analysis leading for the unraveling of his existence. John Goodman, Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly and Bruce Greenwood complete the cast. Producers are Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald under their Parkes/MacDonald production banner along with Zemeckis, Steve Starkey, and Jack Rapke under their ImageMovers banner. Tunie made her feature directorial debut inside the indie romantic comedy "Assist you in September," starring Estella Warren and Justin Kirk ("Weeds").She's repped by Paradigm. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com