Last night I watched a movie EXECUTIVE DECISION, starring Kurt Russell and Halle Berry. In this movie, filmed in 1996, Islamic fanatics hijack a 747 and head for Washington, D.C. intending to use the plane as a WMD against the city.
Of course, in the movie, the good guys win, take over the plane and land it safely, and the passengers are saved.
It was very scary to see how close this movie matched the events of 9-11. There was also a very silly part in which the good guys lose communications, and in order to signal the F-14's that are about to shoot them down, use the aircraft's tail lights to send a message in Morse code. Of course now we know they could have just used their cell phones.
In this movie, Hollywood was not afraid to make the bad guys what they are IRL: Islamic fanatics.