Disney has partnered with Japan’s All Nippon Airways and painted at least one of the airline’s newly acquired Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners to look like R2-D2. <br /> <br /> This isn’t the first time a blockbuster movie franchise has teamed with an airline for a flying billboard. Air New Zealand painted several Boeing 777s and 747s for director Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” trilogies. <br /> <br /> But ANA is hyping its new livery like it has no prequel, saying it “marks the first time a Star Wars character will appear on the exterior of a commercial aircraft.” The company haslaunched a new website—complete with theme music—dedicated to the R2-D2 jet, which it says will fly on international routes this autumn and is part of a five-year “Star Wars Project” that “will connect Japan to the global market.”
