The real-life heroes involved in the thwarted terror attack on a French train in 2015 will play themselves in Clint Eastwood’s dramatisation of events in his next film The 15:17 To Paris.
American servicemen Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and civilian Anthony Sadler will all portray themselves in the new production, set up over at Warner Brothers, which officially kicked off shooting this week.
The studio released an official statement of the casting news as cameras started to roll.
Eastwood directs the film which centers on the three men who managed to subdue a man who opened fire inside a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris.
ABC News report that the Sacramento-area men were vacationing in Europe when they tackled Ayoub El-Khazzani, a man who authorities said has ties to radical Islam. El-Khazzani had boarded the Paris-bound train with a Kalashnikov rifle, pistol and box cutter.
We hear that the film will follow the three men from childhood and show their friendship leading up to the moment that changed their lives.
Jenna Fischer, Judy Greer, Ray Corasani, Paul-Mikel Williams, Max Ivutin, Bryce Gheisa, Cole Eichenberger, and William Jennings also star.
The 15:17 To Paris will open in 2018.
