Claim: "Never Gonna Give You Up" director Simon West also directed Con Air, a movie where the inmates hijack an airplane and fly to Carson City.
Evidence: The 1987 music video for "Never Gonna Give You Up" was directed by Simon West. He has primarily worked in the action genre, most notably as the director of the films Con Air (1997), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), The Mechanic (2011), and The Expendables 2 (2012). The hijacking inmates plot to land at Carson Airport as scheduled, pick up and transfer other prisoners, and then fly to a non-extradition country. The plane arrives at Carson City and the inmate exchange commences, with the ground crew unaware that the hijackers are disguised as guards.