![]() He is an absolute true merchant mariner who has great pride in what he does. "He still goes out to sea for six weeks at a time. ![]() "And you know what he's doing right now?" asks Hanks. "He is an incredibly pragmatic guy who went through something quite extraordinary and barely survived," he says of Phillips, who recorded his version of events in the book A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy Seals, And Dangerous Days At Sea. "Every chance I've had, on movies like Apollo 13 and Saving Private Ryan, I am thinking of the best way to get people into the theatre and I think Captain Phillips is a very, very compelling story," he notes.Īfter the film was released in the United States, several members of the Alabama crew spoke out and cast doubt on the heroism of Phillips' actions, but Hanks spent time with the captain and was impressed by what he learnt. Richard Phillips arrived in New York, accompanied by FBI agents, and broke. flagged merchant ship Maersk Alabama and Capt. Playing in Captain Phillips was a great experience for all of us," says Hanks, who will be seen next as Walt Disney in the biographical drama Saving Mr.Banks. Abduwali Muse, the surviving Somali pirate from the attack on the U.S. "But all the cast and crew were up for the challenge because otherwise you're shooting a movie in a sound stage somewhere in LA and the biggest adventure you have is choosing which route to take to work. "It was a pretty impressive array of run-and-gun film-making that went back to the days Paul Greengrass was shooting documentaries for the BBC. Starring Hanks as the titular Captain Phillips, the Paul Greengrass. Based on a real-life incident from 2009, Captain Phillips told the harrowing story of what happened when Somali pirates boarded and hijacked a container vessel, taking the ship’s captain hostage. "Basically, they stuck some guys in a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean and then went out and chased us with cameras. A pirate expert breaks down Tom Hanks’ 2013 true-life drama Captain Phillips. "That was a very uncomfortable and unpleasant atmosphere to be in," Hanks says. The lifeboat scenes are very claustrophobic. I didn't have any real problems with sea-sickness and I don't think the crew did until we started working in the lifeboat." "We shot this movie in Malta," he says, "and every day we went down to the port, got on the ship and that ship does roll when you're out at sea. This dramatic story was also transformed into an Academy-Award and Golden-Globe nominated film, Captain Phillips, which hit the big screens in fall of 2013.He says that he and the rest of the cast were required to "find our sea-legs very quickly", with 75 per cent of the 60-day shoot spent out on the open water. Richard Phillips' back and concluded he was in “imminent danger.”Ĭaptain Richard Phillips is the author of A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea, about his experience and his remarkable rescue. The standoff dragged on until April 12th, when Navy SEAL snipers saw one of the pirates aim his AK-47 machine gun at Capt. On Friday April 10th, Captain Phillips jumped out of the lifeboat and managed to swim a few yards toward the nearby destroyer, but the pirates went in after him and managed to haul him back in. Navy responded to the scene, and negotiations were ongoing between the pirates and the captain of the USS Bainbridge. Held hostage as a human shield in a small lifeboat with three pirates, he had little to hope for or cling to - except the knowledge that he had done absolutely everything he could to save the lives of the 20 sailors aboard his ship. After they released their captive, the pirates refused to honor the agreement and fled with nine days of food rations and Captain Phillips. Once the pirates settled into one of the ship's covered lifeboats, the crew attempted to trade the pirate they had captured for Captain Phillips. ![]() Amid the standoff, he offered himself as a hostage. To protect his crew, Captain Phillips made a conscious decision to put himself directly in harm's way, knowing full well that he might pay the ultimate price for his decision. Firing into the air as they leapt aboard the ship, many of the crew members scrambled into a designated safe room aboard the vessel. ![]() The hostage drama began on Wednesday, April 8th when a small band of pirates swung grappling hooks and climbed ropes from their skiff onto the Maersk Alabama, a container ship ferrying food aid to East Africa. The following day, speedboats carrying pirates armed with AK. His courage is a model for all Americans.įor five days in April 2009, the world was glued to their TV screens as Captain Richard Phillips became the center of an extraordinary international drama when he was captured by Somali pirates who hijacked his ship, the first hijacking of a U.S. The ship travelled into pirate waters a few hundred miles off the Somali coast despite the warnings. I share the country's admiration for the bravery of Captain Phillips and his selfless concern for hisĬrew. ![]()
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