The plane does appear to be a 787 the zig zag on the back of the engine cowling being a dead giveaway . The paint scheme takes some cues from the airplane in the background of the Wonderful Rush music video . ie love hearts on the engine cowling . In the case of the movie it is white heart on a blue background but in the music video the background is pink . ANA appears to fly 777300 ER on the Narita to JFK route at the moment . I couldn ' t find any evidence of ANA 787 ' s at JFK . And by evidence I mean a search of airliners . net photo database . Plane spotters tend to record new aircraft landing at their local airport . ANA was the first airline to fly a commercial route with the 787 in Oct 2011 as you pointed out . The earliest Japan Airlines 787 I could find at JFK was 6 Apr 2014 although their first 787 started flights to Boston in Mar 2012 . All JAL and ANA 787 s were grounded on January 16 2013 due to battery problems . They resumed flights on April 26 , 2013 . This means it would be unlikely that the LL movie could have happened in 2013 . If we assume the film makers went into that sort of detail . 787800 was the first aircraft created . The long bodied 787900 went into service on 9 Aug 2014 . ANA first fly a 787900 on 7 Aug 2014 . The movie was released in 2015 .