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Captain Phillips is a 2013 American biographical action-thriller film [4] [5] [6] directed by Paul Greengrass. Based on the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking , the film tells the story of Captain Richard Phillips , an American merchant mariner who was taken hostage by Somali pirates .
Barkhad Abdi starred as the lead Somali pirate, Tom Hanks starred as Phillips and Faysal Ahmed as Najee in a Columbia film based on the hijacking and Phillips's book, scripted by Billy Ray, and produced by the team behind The Social Network. [9] The film, entitled Captain Phillips, was released on October 11, 2013, to widespread critical acclaim.
In an interview on the set of Captain Phillips for New York Daily News, Phillips describes his devotion to his crew, his feeling of success as a captain and his eagerness to get back to sea. "My crew were now safe, because the pirates lost their ladder and boat when they boarded the Maersk Alabama, so they couldn't get back onboard," says Phillips.
In 2013, Ahmed appeared in the film Captain Phillips. He played Najee, a ship hijacker. Ahmed and three other actors were picked from among more than 700 participants at a 2011 casting call at the Brian Coyle Community Center in Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis. According to the search casting director, Debbie DeLisi, the four were selected because ...
Captain Phillips: Best Supporting Actor: Nominated Most Promising Performer: Nominated Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association. Year Nominated work Category
Captain Phillips (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2013 film Captain Phillips directed by Paul Greengrass, starring Tom Hanks as the titular character. Henry Jackman composed the film's musical score, which released on October 15, 2013, through Varèse Sarabande .
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In 2013, the movie Captain Phillips was released in the US, directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi. The screenplay by Billy Ray was based on the 2010 book A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea by Richard Phillips with Stephan Talty as co-writer.