Tom Hanks has agreed to play the lead role in the biographical drama “Captain Phillips” in March 2011, Paul Greengrass was installed at the helm of directing in June of the same year, Billy Ray (“The Hunger Games”, “Flightplan”, “State of Play”) has provided the script, Scott Rudin, Michael De Luca, Dana Brunetti and Kevin Spacey took on the duties of producers and Columbia Pictures has set the official launch in North American theaters on the day of 22 March 2013.
However, since has been a long time from when new details surfaced on the Internet about distribution, and Tom Hanks remained about one year only name confirmed on the list, the journalists from The Playlist noting that the double Academy Award nominee Catherine Keener (52 years) signed the contract and will portray Andrea Phillips, the loyal wife and with a strong personality of ship captain Richard Phillips, which has never lost confidence in the judgment of her life partner and no faith that it will manage to escape alive from the clutches of Somali pirates who held him hostage.
Inspired by the autobiographical novel “A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs and Dangerous Days at Sea” by Richard Phillips, the captain of the ship Maersk Alabama, drama “Captain Phillips” tells the three days of nightmare spent by him in captivity in 2009. Maersk Alabama crew carrying food and tools for agriculture under the World Food Program when a group of armed Somali pirates boarded and attacked the sailors. What the pirates did not expect was the crew to fight back and that bold captain to give as a prisoner to be spared the lives of people which he have subordinated.
The Captain Richard Phillips talked about the terrible three days he spent as a hostage of pirates on a tiny lifeboat anchored on the Somali coast, about deadly heat wave and the death threats that he received until it was released by a special squad of United States Navy, who opened the fire on pirates and killed three of them.
