The true story of Captain Richard Phillips provides the basis for the action thriller Captain Phillips starring Oscar-winner Tom Hanks. Paul Greengrass (the Bourne movies) directs and Billy Ray adapted A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea by Phillips and Stephan Talty for the screen.
Columbia Pictures’ Captain Phillips will open in theaters on October 11, 2013.
The Plot:
Tom Hanks stars in the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
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