Clint Eastwood's 'Sully' - Starring Tom Hanks

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Aaron Eckhart joins Tom Hanks in Captain Sully movie (Exclusive).


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Eckhart will play the co-pilot in the Warner Bros. film, which Clint Eastwood is Directing.

Aaron Eckhart is joining Tom Hanks in Warner Bros.' Captain Sully movie.

Hanks will star as Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the pilot who safely landed his plane full of 155 passengers in the Hudson after both engines were knocked out by a flock of geese. The "Miracle on the Hudson" made national headlines in January 2009 and Captain Sully was deemed the "Captain Cool" by then-New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Eckhart will play Jeff Skiles, who was the first officer and co-pilot on the Airbus A320. He was manually flying the plane when the birds crashed into the engines. He helped Sully safely land the US Airways plane.

Clint Eastwood will direct the film, which will have a script by Todd Komarnicki, who is drawing from Sullenberger's life and memoir.

Warner Bros. is behind the movie, which is being produced by Eastwood, Tim Moore and veteran producers Allyn Stewart and Frank Marshall.

** THR.com **

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