Here's the fake "lost" John Carpenter/Kurt Russell movie Stealth Bomber explained. John Carpenter first met Kurt Russell when he was casting the TV movie, Elvis. Carpenter had a choice between an actor who was the spitting image of Elvis - but couldn't really act - or Russell, who didn't look that much like "The King" but could capture his essence. He went for the latter, who won praise for his work and he later formed a lasting creative partnership and friendship with his director.
Their next movie Escape From New York from 1981 was a solid hit that helped Russell shed his Disney star image, and the film has become an influential cult favorite. While their next two collaborations The Thing and Big Trouble In Little China were both box-office duds upon release, they're both considered genre classics now. Their final project together was the 1996 sequel Escape From L.A., which sadly is probably their weakest outing.
While fans of the duo would love to see one more John Carpenter/Kurt Russell collaboration, that's looking unlikely. However, devotees of their work who've dug around the more obscure corners of the internet may have heard of the legend of a "lost" project they made dubbed Stealth Bomber. According to the experimental British band 65daysofstatic from an interview with The AU Review, they took their name from the premise of this obscure Carpenter movie, with the band even writing some music for the project. The only issue there is, Stealth Bomber doesn't exist.
John Carpenter himself confirmed as much during an interview with the London Games Festival in March 2021, stating "Stealth Bomber? Really? I've never heard of it!" 65daysofstatic claims they provided music for Stealth Bomber, which in itself feels like an in-joke since Carpenter has famously scored the bulk of his own filmography. The aforementioned AU Review chat with Joe Shrewsbury also implies the movie fell foul of the Video Nasties panic of the 1980s; this would have been about fifteen years before the band even formed.
Supposedly the 65daysofstatic name referred to a global communications blackout featured in the plot of John Carpenter's Stealth Bomber, but where they really got their name is unknown. While it would be great if there really was an obscure Kurt Russell and John Carpenter film waiting to be rediscovered, that's not the case. Curiously, Russell did star in Executive Decision, a 1996 blockbuster where he and a Special Forces team used a stealth aircraft to board a hijacked airplane. Unfortunately, the film lacked either a John Carpenter or 65daysofstatic score to go with it.