Clint Eastwood's Directing a Movie About Captain Sully

Captain Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger III—the pilot who made that incredible emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in 2009—is getting his own biopic and Clint Eastwood is directing. The announcement comes hot on the heels of Eastwood's exceedingly popular biopic American Sniper, which covered the life and times of prolific Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film will be based of Sullenberger's 2010 memoir Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters and will presumably cover the climatic landing of an Airbus A-320 in the Hudson River as well as the formative events that made Captain "Sully" into the kind of cool-under-pressure operator who could pull off a precarious water-landing that would ultimately save some 155 souls.

So far there's no news as to the casting of the hero Captain Sully or the villainous flock of Canada geese.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter via LA Times