Clint Eastwood Film About Sully's Miracle on the Hudson

[YYZSaabGuy]

This should be worth waiting for: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-32989473

"Clint Eastwood is to direct a film about Chelsey 'Sully' Sullenberger, the pilot who famously crash-landed a plane in New York's Hudson River in 2009. All 155 people on board the US Airways flight survived, with the incident dubbed the "Miracle on the Hudson".

Warner Bros. confirmed Eastwood would direct and produce the drama, which will be based on Captain Sullenberger's own memoir. Eastwood's last film American Sniper was his biggest box-office hit to date. The film, starring Bradley Cooper as Navy Seal Chris Kyle, took $543.4m (£353.8m) globally and was the biggest movie of 2014 in the US.

"I am very glad my story is in the hands of gifted storyteller and filmmaker Clint Eastwood," said Sullenberger.

The film will show the behind-the-scenes drama surrounding Sullenberger's emergency landing on 15 January 2009, after multiple birds flew into the plane's jet engines, causing them to fail. The pilot's book, Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters, also details his personal history before the accident. He retired after 30 years as a pilot in 2010 and now campaigns for better flight safety.

"Simply put, Clint Eastwood is at the top of his game, not to mention a global treasure,'' said Greg Silverman, president of creative development and worldwide production at Warner Bros. "On the heels of his extraordinary work in American Sniper, it is tremendously exciting to see him explore another captivating true-life hero.""

[moocow]

I'm sorry but how the heck are they going to make this event into a 1.5+ hr movie? Slow motion engine restart? 20 minutes on loading fuel and catering carts?

[iflyforpie]

Maybe the first hour will Clint Eastwood talking to the empty captain's chair....

[MAP]

Having read Sullenberger's memoir, I can wholeheartedly say his story would be a perfect fit for a movie adaptation.

One of the main messages in his book centres around how all the events in his life leading up to the accident: his training, his military career, his commercial career, and his aviation safety background, lead him to a successful landing on the Hudson. Starting with Sully's teenage years flying tail draggers from a Texas farm, to his military career flying fighter aircraft for the US military, to then moving onto the commercial side with US Airways, climaxing with the Hudson landing. I'd imagine the film will take on a sort of Piche Entre Ciel Et Terre type theme and layout.

I cannot put into words how excited I am for this movie, and I know with full certainty that Eastwood will do his story justice!

[leftoftrack]

is there going to be any other crew members on the plane or just Sully?

what was the first officers name?

[howard40]

Jeff Skiles, he also does lots for aviation in his semi retirement, Writes a lot for EAA magazine.
I would not hold your breath on getting accurate treatment in a movie, this is the country that made a decent movie about getting the enigma machine from a german submarine, but other than a few words in the credits , turned the capturing team to the good old USA, instead of the brits that did it. Ask anyone who the first to fly across the atlantic was and the answer will be lindberg, and his feat was not easy at all. Of course a canadian did it about 8 years earlier. but he took a friend.

[Old fella]

Load of shit, then again it's the entertainment industry so nuff said, I mean it was every bit of 10 min, if that between take off and ending in the river, so there will be imagination fluff to fill in an hr+movie.

[Changes in Latitudes]

Load of shit, then again it's the entertainment industry so nuff said, I mean it was every bit of 10 min, if that between take off and ending in the river, so there will be imagination fluff to fill in an hr+movie.

I was going to recommend you read Sullenberger's biographical book like one of the previous posters, but I'm not sure reading is your favourite activity. But try again, sound out all of the letters and you may have a thought or idea that inspires you.

As MAP said, very eloquently, the man's life is a little more than 10 minutes of solid decision making.

Having read Sullenberger's memoir, I can wholeheartedly say his story would be a perfect fit for a movie adaptation.

One of the main messages in his book centres around how all the events in his life leading up to the accident: his training, his military career, his commercial career, and his aviation safety background, lead him to a successful landing on the Hudson. Starting with Sully's teenage years flying tail draggers from a Texas farm, to his military career flying fighter aircraft for the US military, to then moving onto the commercial side with US Airways, climaxing with the Hudson landing. I'd imagine the film will take on a sort of Piche Entre Ciel Et Terre type theme and layout.

I cannot put into words how excited I am for this movie, and I know with full certainty that Eastwood will do his story justice!

[JBI]

Maybe the first hour will Clint Eastwood talking to the empty captain's chair....

I'm excited to finally find out how Obama plotted with the Canadian Geese to cause this accident.

[HiFlyChick]

I'm a fan of Clint, but it doesn't seem like his style of story - no fist fights, heads being blown off, or naked women...
(but then again, who knows what Sully did in his college years )

I hope that they use Sully as a consultant and ask him lots of questions, or at least a pilot of... something... Some of the aviation movies are just so pathetic.

My favorite was one of Amelia Earheart - she gets half-way cross the ocean and suddenly she starts in this terrible dive (with the appropriate GNOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW engine sound). And the narrator says, "Yes! Her flaps had frozen!" What the?! But I kept watching and only turned it off in disgust when she crashed in a field and when the farmer ran up to help her and she asked where she is, he answered, "You're in Cape Breton, Newfoundland!" That's when I turned it off.

Hey - maybe the writer of that movie got a job with that travel agency out west that put all of the Newfoundland place names on the map of Cape Breton!

[cncpc]

Maybe the first hour will Clint Eastwood talking to the empty captain's chair....

Touche!

[Old fella]

Load of shit, then again it's the entertainment industry so nuff said, I mean it was every bit of 10 min, if that between take off and ending in the river, so there will be imagination fluff to fill in an hr+movie.

I was going to recommend you read Sullenberger's biographical book like one of the previous posters, but I'm not sure reading is your favourite activity. But try again, sound out all of the letters and you may have a thought or idea that inspires you.

As MAP said, very eloquently, the man's life is a little more than 10 minutes of solid decision making.

Having read Sullenberger's memoir, I can wholeheartedly say his story would be a perfect fit for a movie adaptation.

One of the main messages in his book centres around how all the events in his life leading up to the accident: his training, his military career, his commercial career, and his aviation safety background, lead him to a successful landing on the Hudson. Starting with Sully's teenage years flying tail draggers from a Texas farm, to his military career flying fighter aircraft for the US military, to then moving onto the commercial side with US Airways, climaxing with the Hudson landing. I'd imagine the film will take on a sort of Piche Entre Ciel Et Terre type theme and layout.

I cannot put into words how excited I am for this movie, and I know with full certainty that Eastwood will do his story justice!

"Go ahead, make my day"

[longjon]

Also a Clint Eastwood fan, BUT he's a typical American, probably thinks the USA won the war etc.
Maybe Ben Afflick aka ARGO would do a better job as he did so much with the Canadian Embassy in his flick. rife sarcasm

[YYZSaabGuy]

It'll be a story about an American pilot, who spent his career flying for the U.S. military and American carriers, flying an American scheduled flight with an American F/O and crew and American passengers between two American cities. It's not that big a leap of faith to have an American director.......

[cyeg66]

I just hope there's a good love story in there, like all other awesome Hollywood blockbusters. Think: Pearl Harbor. I mean, there just wasn't enough factual info to go by in 1941 so they jazzed it up with some romance. Knocked it right out of the park, IMO. Wasn't contrived or vomit inducing in the slightest....

[esp803]

If it were me (as Eastwood), I'd do the accident in real time at the start, right before it touches the water, a flash back, do the biography, back to the "present", then he lands, and it all makes sense. The crowd goes wild.

E

[iflyforpie]

Man... that's like your life flashing before your eyes in slo mo!

[Old fella]

Ya think this has possibilities in the new"flick" on the nose of the famed A320.

[Hockaloogie]

Harrison Ford as Sully and John Travolta as Skiles. JT's good with checklists.

Now who should we get for cabin crew? Is Julie Hagerty available?

Tom Hanks can play a nervous passenger who keeps looking at his watch and keeps a volleyball in his carry-on.

[Johnny#5]