He’s played Captain Phillips, and now it looks like he’s going to play Captain Sully…
According to Deadline, Tom Hanks has entered negotiations to star as Captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger in Clint Eastwood’s upcoming biopic of the veteran pilot who became an American hero in 2009 thanks to the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’, where he successfully pulled off an emergency landing on in the Hudson River after engine failure, saving the lives of all his passengers.
Eastwood is set to follow up American Sniper with the project, which is based on Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow’s book Highest Duty: My Search For What Really Matters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uysEOQl_NPc&list=PL18yMRIfoszEaHYNDTy5C-cH9Oa2gN5ng&feature=player_embedded
Originally published June 19, 2015. Updated April 15, 2018.
