Yesterday evening saw us bring you the first clip for director Paul Greengrass’ fact-based survival thriller CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, and now we’ve another as well as a brand new trailer. The film chronicles the events in 2009 when the container ship, Maersk Alabama, was taken over by desperately ruthless Somali pirates. The first US seafaring vessel in over 200 years! Tom Hanks leads as the heroic Captain Richard Phillips in the latest gritty thriller from the acclaimed director of similar tense, true-life dramas, BLOODY SUNDAY and UNITED 93.
Captain Phillips is director Paul Greengrass’s multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. It is – through Greengrass’s distinctive lens – simultaneously a pulse-pounding thriller and a complex portrait of the myriad effects of globalization. The film focuses on the relationship between the Alabama’s commanding officer, Captain Richard Phillips (two time Academy Award® winner Tom Hanks), and his Somali counterpart, Muse (Barkhad Abdi). Set on an incontrovertible collision course off the coast of Somalia, both men will find themselves paying the human toll for economic forces outside of their control.
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS is released in the US October 11 and the UK a week later on the 18th October. It co-stars Catherine Keener, Max Martini, Yul Vazquez, Michael Chernus, Chris Mulkey, Corey Johnson, David Warshofsky, John Magaro and Angus MacInnes.
Craig was our great north east correspondent, proving that it’s so ‘grim up north’ that losing yourself in a world of film is a foregone prerequisite. He has been studying the best (and often worst) of both classic and modern cinema at the University of Life for as long as he can remember. Craig’s favorite films include THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, JFK, GOODFELLAS, SCARFACE, and most of John Carpenter’s early work, particularly THE THING and HALLOWEEN.
