17 when Hanks and Abdi meet inside a cavernous Hollywood photo studio, the first time they have seen each other since Phillips wrapped. “I thought it was a magnificent story about decency, heroism and an ordinary person in an extraordinary situation.” 23, a move that came against the backdrop of a so-far-unsuccessful bid by investor Daniel Loeb to lead the studio’s parent, Sony Corp., to sell off the entertainment division.ĭespite these pressures, “I didn’t see this as a difficult film to greenlight,” says Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chairman Amy Pascal. Those releases led to the exit of Sony marketing chief Marc Weinstock on Sept.
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The movie (produced by Scott Rudin, Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti, the trio who made Social Network) arrives at a time of convulsion within the film business and added pressure on Sony, which has failed to deliver a blockbuster this year and has had to deal with such disappointments as After Earth and White House Down. 27 debut at the New York Film Festival, THR‘s chief film critic Todd McCarthy wrote, “Something of a companion piece for director Paul Greengrass to his superb United 93, which was based on the real-life takeover of one of the 9/11 aircraft, this immaculately made reconstruction of a chaotic incident will have a much better time of it commercially.” So far, response to this film has been positive. STORY: With ‘Captain Phillips,’ Tom Hanks Is Back In The Oscar Hunt (Analysis) But neither the genre nor the price-point offers any certainty, as DreamWorks may have sensed at Toronto, where it unveiled The Fifth Estate to lukewarm notices. Made on budgets of $50 million or less, these movies have generated substantial profits in recent years: Sony’s own The Social Network ($225 million globally) and Zero Dark Thirty ($109 million) Warner Bros.’ Argo ($232 million) and DreamWorks’ Lincoln ($275 million). With a glut of excellent films heading into awards season, the studio is betting on audiences’ continued interest in real-life dramas. As for Phillips, he widely was considered a hero and went on to write a book about his experiences, A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea.įour-and-a-half years after the incident, Sony is bringing his story to the screen with Captain Phillips, a $50 million drama that revolves around two skippers: the Alabama’s Phillips (played by Tom Hanks, 57) and Muse, the Somali leader (played by newcomer Barkhad Abdi, 28). The brief and violent conclusion, during which three American snipers shot the pirates, drew public praise from President Obama. when it was shown around the clock on cable news. The five-day drama that ensued, as the Somalis held Phillips while a warship stood by, riveted the U.S. Navy fast approaching, the pirates seized a windowless lifeboat, taking Phillips hostage when he volunteered to become a prisoner in the place of his men, who remained aboard the ship. Richard Phillips ordered his men to hide in a secure room but when the pirates found them, a fight broke out and one of the invaders was overpowered. In an attempt to save his small crew, Capt. When these particular pirates were spotted, the Alabama immediately took protective measures, swinging its rudder back and forth to create a giant wave that scuttled one of their boats. PHOTOS: Exclusive Portraits of Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi They had seen fellow countrymen grow rich through piracy (indeed, at the time, about 200 foreigners were being held for ransom) and hoped to become rich, too - even if it meant scaling a vessel as large as a fortress.īefore multinational endeavors limited piracy there, some 3,000 to 5,000 pirates were based in Somalia they had seized 26 ships in both 20, ransoming them for an average of $4.9 million each. The men who attacked it were desperate they came from a country ravaged by civil war with one of the lowest per-capita incomes in the world and almost no prospect of betterment. On April 8, 2009, four armed Somali pirates traveling on simple skiffs boarded the 17,000-ton Maersk Alabama, a Danish cargo ship owned by the largest container-ship operator in the world, that was sailing several hundred miles off the coast of Somalia toward Mombasa, Kenya. 4 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
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