Paramount’s FLIGHT looks to add Frances McDormand and Tommy Lee Jones

Robert Zemeckis is directing FLIGHT, the story of an alcoholic airline pilot.  The film is scheduled to start in 3 weeks and the cast is firming up.  Denzel Washington stars; Bruce Greenwood and Kelly Reilly are already in.  Now, according to our sources, an offer has been made to Frances McDormand to join the cast.  McDormand would play a lawyer who is head of the National Transportation Safety Board investigation into a crash that

Washington’s character is involved in.  Jones has been offered to play the owner of the small airline.