Director Wolfgang Petersen had previously focused on the life of the President in his film, In the Line of Fire (1993), and he returns to that subject in Air Force One (1997), a big budget, over the edge thriller, that had the cooperation of the US Government, and the personal support of President Bill Clinton.  Although Kevin Costner was originally in mind to play the President, it would be hard to imagine anyone better suited to this role at the time, than Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones).