"for saving his life. Uncredited: Sony Pictures optioned the film rights shortly after the publication of Richard Phillips' memoir ""A Captain's Duty"" in 2010. In March 2011, actor Tom Hanks attached himself to the project after reading a draft of the screenplay by Billy Ray. Director Paul Greengrass was offered the helm of the untitled film adaptation during the following June. A worldwide search subsequently began to find the film's supporting Somali cast. From this search, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Ahmed, and Mahat M. Ali were chosen from among more than 700 participants at a 2011 casting call at"
"the project. It premiered at the 2013 New York Film Festival, and was theatrically released on October 11, 2013. The film emerged as a box office success grossing over $218 million against a budget of $55 million. In 2014, ""Captain Phillips"" received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Abdi. Richard Phillips takes command of MV ""Maersk Alabama"", an unarmed container ship from the Port of Salalah in Oman, with orders to sail through the Guardafui Channel to Mombasa, Kenya. Wary of pirate activity off the coast of the Horn of Africa,"
"and portrays Phillips' wife Andrea as loyal and strong-willed. Columbia Pictures optioned the book and acquired the life rights to Phillips in spring 2009. In March 2011, it was announced that Barkhad Abdi would star as the lead Somali pirate, Tom Hanks would star 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"". The film, entitled ""Captain Phillips"", was released in October 11, 2013 to widespread critical acclaim. A Captain's Duty A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs,"
"Los Angeles, California, as well as Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The notable lump on his forehead came from a car accident he was in sometime prior to auditioning for ""Captain Phillips"". Barkhad Abdi Barkhad Abdi () (born April 10, 1985) is a Somali-American actor and director. He made his debut in the film ""Captain Phillips"" (2013), for which he received a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, as well as Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. Abdi was born in Mogadishu, Banaadir to a Majeerteen family. Around the age of six or seven, when the Somali Civil War"
"Barkhad Abdi Barkhad Abdi () (born April 10, 1985) is a Somali-American actor and director. He made his debut in the film ""Captain Phillips"" (2013), for which he received a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, as well as Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. Abdi was born in Mogadishu, Banaadir to a Majeerteen family. Around the age of six or seven, when the Somali Civil War broke out, he and his family moved to Yemen to join his father, who had taken up teaching. In 1999, Abdi and his family relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where there"
"Kevin Phillips (actor) Kevin Phillips (born December 11, 1981) is an American film actor, best known for his leading role in Suna Gonera’s ""Pride"" (2007), as well as his role in 2009's ""Notorious"". Kevin starred in the George Lucas-produced 2012 film ""Red Tails"", which chronicles the story of the Tuskegee Airmen. Kevin split his adolescence between Moncks Corner, South Carolina and Brooklyn. In 2000, he decided to leave his basketball scholarship at SUNY-Cobleskill to pursue an acting career. Phillips got his start in an off-Broadway play “A Little Piece of Life” directed by William Hicks. His first film credit was"
"film was first announced as being based on the bestselling, award-winning non-fiction book ""Imperial Life in the Emerald City"", by the ""Washington Post""s Baghdad bureau chief, Rajiv Chandrasekaran. However the final film is a largely fictionalised action thriller only loosely inspired by events in the book. ""Captain Phillips"", Greengrass's film about the Maersk Alabama hijacking in 2009, was based on the book ""A Captain's Duty"", and starred Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi and Faysal Ahmed. It was shot in 2012 in Massachusetts, Virginia and Malta and was released on 11 October 2013. Greengrass returned to direct the fifth Jason Bourne film,"
"writing detective fiction, Talty has written several nonfiction books on crime and American history. He cowrote the book that was the basis for ""Captain Phillips"", and wrote ""The Black Hand"", a novelization about the killing of Italian American cop Joe Petrosino in 1909. 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. In 2017, Paramount Pictures"
"Todd Phillips Todd Phillips (born Todd Bunzl; December 20, 1970) is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for writing and directing films, including ""Road Trip"" (2000), ""Old School"" (2003), ""Starsky & Hutch"" (2004), ""The Hangover Trilogy"" (2009, 2011, and 2013), ""Due Date"" (2010) and ""War Dogs"" (2016). For his work on the film ""Borat"", he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Huntington, New York, Phillips attended New York University Film School, but dropped out in order to focus on completing his first film, the feature-length"
"Jonny Phillips (actor) Jonathan Mark Phillips (born 5 September 1963), known as Jonny Phillips, is an English actor. 'Jonny Philips' is best known for his portrayal of 2nd Officer Charles Lightoller in the 1997 blockbuster film ""Titanic"". He also appeared in an episode of ""Midsomer Murders"" entitled ""Country Matters"". In 2012, he appeared in 11 episodes of I Shouldn't Be Alive a documentary television series as 'David Hunt'. In 2012 he starred in a new series ""Hunted"" for BBC One and HBO. He plays DI 'Evertt', a corrupt police Detective Inspector. In 2013 he appeared in an episode of ""Death"
"is a large Somali community. He subsequently attended Minnesota State University Moorhead. Before entering the film industry, Abdi sold mobile phones at his brother's shop at a mall in Minneapolis. He also worked as a limousine driver at a relative's chauffeur company and as a DJ. Abdi made his debut in the 2013 film ""Captain Phillips"". He played ship hijacker and pirate leader Abduwali Muse. He was cast following a worldwide search for the lead roles. Abdi and three other actors were subsequently chosen from more than 700 participants at a 2011 casting call in Minneapolis. According to the casting"
"of inaccuracy with how the film portrays the events surrounding the hijacking, and ""at the end of the day, it is easy to make anonymous accusations against a film [...] but the facts are clear [...] Captain Phillips' ship was attacked, and the ship and the crew and its cargo made it safely to port with no injuries or loss of life [...] That's the story we told, and it's an accurate one."" Phillips' first mate Shane Murphy stated in an interview with Vulture published on October 13, 2013 that he was satisfied with how the movie portrayed both Phillips"
"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 they were ""the chosen ones, that anointed group that stuck out."" In early 2014, he revealed that he was going to Los Angeles by the spring season in order to continue his acting career. In 2016 he partook in A Stray that was directed by Musa Syeed. Faysal Ahmed Faysal Ahmed"
"with Phillips admiring Dvorak's professional dedication in this difficult role. The film begins with General Mark W. Clark paying tribute to Claire Phillips and ends with General Clark awarding her the Medal of Freedom. Claire Fuentes is an American-born Filipina living in Manila and working as a cafe entertainer on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor. She meets and marries an American soldier, Sgt. John Phillips (Douglas Kennedy), and with her husband, witnesses the Japanese invasion of the Philippines during the siege of Bataan. Her husband is captured, and she watches as he is killed by machine gun"
"Pictures film based on the hijacking and Phillips' book, scripted by Billy Ray, and produced by the team behind ""The Social Network"". The film, titled ""Captain Phillips"", was released on October 11, 2013 and had its premiere showing at the 2013 New York Film Festival. 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,"
"role in the ABC drama, Castle. In 2011, the Noor Iranian Film Festival in Los Angeles invited him to participate as an official festival judge. In 2013, he played the role of the U.S. Navy SEAL commander in Paul Greengrass' Academy Award nominated film ""Captain Phillips"". In 2013, Guillermo del Toro's cast Martini and Rob Kazinsky as the Australian father-son pilot duo in ""Pacific Rim"" In 2014, Martini was cast in Legendary Pictures‘ supernatural thriller ""Spectral"" Martini played Christian Grey's bodyguard in the film ""Fifty Shades of Grey"" (2015), and its two sequels. In 2016, Martini portrayed Mark ""Oz"" Geist"
"""Bainbridge"" and speaking with military negotiators while being treated for an injury sustained in the takeover of ""Maersk Alabama"", surrendered and was taken into custody. He later pleaded guilty to hijacking, kidnapping and hostage-taking charges and was sentenced to over 33 years in prison. Following the hijacking, Phillips published ""A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea"". Columbia Pictures optioned the book and acquired the film rights in spring 2010. In March 2011, it was announced that Tom Hanks would star as Phillips, Barkhad Abdi as Abduwali Muse and Faysal Ahmed as Najee in a Sony"
"was not a pirate vessel. A more recent case, 2008's ""United States v. Shi"", which was quoted in his indictment, involves murder and a crew member taking over a ship and holding a hostage. Muse was portrayed by Somali-American actor Barkhad Abdi in the 2013 film ""Captain Phillips"", a dramatization of the events in 2009, also starring Tom Hanks as the titular character. The film received a nomination for Best Picture, and Abdi was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Muse. In 2010, Muse was charged in connection with two additional attacks on"
"January 2009, Kevin starred as the lead male role in R&B singer Ciara's ""Never Ever"" music video, making it the second time working with Ciara. Kevin has starred in 2012's Red Tails. Kevin Phillips (actor) Kevin Phillips (born December 11, 1981) is an American film actor, best known for his leading role in Suna Gonera’s ""Pride"" (2007), as well as his role in 2009's ""Notorious"". Kevin starred in the George Lucas-produced 2012 film ""Red Tails"", which chronicles the story of the Tuskegee Airmen. Kevin split his adolescence between Moncks Corner, South Carolina and Brooklyn. In 2000, he decided to leave"
"the box office. He executive produced the biographical survival thriller film ""Captain Phillips"" in 2013, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Spacey portrayed founder and president of the private military corporation Atlas Corporation, Jonathan Irons, in the 2014 video game """" through motion capture. Spacey starred as President Richard Nixon in the comedy-drama ""Elvis & Nixon"" (2016). The film is based on the meeting that took place between Nixon and singer Elvis Presley (Michael Shannon) in December 1970 wherein Presley requested Nixon swear him in as an undercover agent in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous"
"by the U.S. Navy SEALs), both also on display at the museum. Principal photography for ""Captain Phillips"" began on March 26, 2012. Filming took place off the coast of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea. Nine weeks were spent filming aboard the , a container ship identical to the ""Maersk Alabama""; it was chartered on commercial terms. The , an and sister ship of USS ""Bainbridge"", served as a set piece in the film. The film score to ""Captain Phillips"" was composed by Henry Jackman. A soundtrack album for the film was released in physical forms on October 15, 2013 by"
"Tom Hanks Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Hanks is known for his comedic and dramatic roles in such films as ""Splash"" (1984), ""Big"" (1988), ""Turner & Hooch"" (1989), ""A League of Their Own"" (1992), ""Sleepless in Seattle"" (1993), ""Apollo 13"" (1995), ""You've Got Mail"" (1998), ""The Green Mile"" (1999), ""Cast Away"" (2000), ""Road to Perdition"" (2002), ""Cloud Atlas"" (2012), ""Captain Phillips"" (2013), ""Saving Mr. Banks"" (2013), and ""Sully"" (2016). He has also starred in the ""Robert Langdon"" film series, and voices Sheriff Woody in the ""Toy Story"" film series. Hanks has collaborated"
"awarded Best Film honors at international film festivals in Boston, Miami, East L.A., Houston, and Las Vegas. It features Sean Patrick Flanery, Vivica A. Fox, Will Estes, Joseph Julian Soria, and Will Rothhaar and he helped secure the theatrical release September 2013 through AMC Theatres. David Phillips (actor) David Joseph Phillips (born April 19, 1978) is a Canadian actor and producer best known for starring in numerous theatrical performances in Toronto and at the Stratford Festival, hosting Video & Arcade Top 10 and The Miss Canada Pageant. He is also known for acting in the films ""Poker Night,"" ""Shark City,"
"so they couldn't get back onboard,"" says Phillips. ""For me it was really a relief—my crew and ship were safe."" Phillips also added, ""I never lost hope for myself, but I didn't see a good ending coming out of it."" Phillips commented in his interview that the rendition of the events is accurate, adding, ""When I met him [Tom Hanks] I told him if he's going to play me he's going to have to put on a little weight and get a little better-looking and he did neither."" Since the release of ""Captain Phillips"", there has been controversy over its"
"in a week to be attacked by pirates who had previously extorted ransoms in the tens of millions of dollars. The story of the incident was reported in the 2010 book ""A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea"" by Stephan Talty and Captain Richard Phillips, who had been master of the vessel at the time of the incident. The hijacking also inspired the 2013 film ""Captain Phillips"" starring Tom Hanks. The ship, originating from Salalah, Oman was bound for Mombasa, Kenya after a stop in Djibouti with a crew of 23, loaded with of cargo."
"star Joaquin Phoenix as The Joker. As of July 2018, Scorsese was no longer involved in the project. Todd Phillips Todd Phillips (born Todd Bunzl; December 20, 1970) is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for writing and directing films, including ""Road Trip"" (2000), ""Old School"" (2003), ""Starsky & Hutch"" (2004), ""The Hangover Trilogy"" (2009, 2011, and 2013), ""Due Date"" (2010) and ""War Dogs"" (2016). For his work on the film ""Borat"", he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Huntington, New York, Phillips attended New"
"of the failed hijacking attempt of the U.S.-flagged freighter by Somali pirates in April, 2009, which ended with the release of the vessel's Master, Captain Richard Phillips, on 12 April 2009. After crewmen of the captured cargo vessel managed to retake the ship, the pirates retreated, taking the ship's Master hostage in a lifeboat. ""Bainbridge"", , and shadowed the pirates, and with FBI assistance attempted negotiations for the safe return of the captive captain until U.S. Navy SEAL snipers resolved the situation with deadly force. The story of this incident was turned into the 2013 motion picture titled ""Captain Phillips"","
"in Paradise"" credited as Jonny Phillips. Since 2014 played in a leading role Father Crowe in the Webseries The Outer Darkness. In 2014 he appeared as Alistair Stoke, a neurosurgeon, in Entry Wounds Pt 1 in series 8 of Inspector Lewis. Jonny Phillips (actor) Jonathan Mark Phillips (born 5 September 1963), known as Jonny Phillips, is an English actor. 'Jonny Philips' is best known for his portrayal of 2nd Officer Charles Lightoller in the 1997 blockbuster film ""Titanic"". He also appeared in an episode of ""Midsomer Murders"" entitled ""Country Matters"". In 2012, he appeared in 11 episodes of I Shouldn't"
"John Phillips (actor) William John Phillips MC (20 July 1914 – 11 May 1995) was an English actor. He is best remembered for the role of Chief Superintendent Robins, in the television series ""Z-Cars"" and for his work as a Shakespearean stage actor. Phillips was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire in 1914, and began his acting career at Birmingham Rep in the 1930s. During the Second World War, Phillips served in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and was awarded the Military Cross. His early theatre roles included the Ghost in the 1955 Peter Brook – Paul Scofield production of ""Hamlet"" at the"
"director, the four were selected because they were ""the chosen ones, that anointed group that stuck out"". He was paid only $65,000 for his appearance in the film and returned to working in his brother's shop afterwards. For his work, Abdi was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and a Golden Globe Award. He won a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. Abdi's experience in ""Captain Phillips"" was his first in the film industry. In January 2014, Abdi read scripts for a television show. He landed a role"
"portrayal of Phillips, with several crew members claiming that he was not the hero presented in the film, according to lawsuits filed by more than half of the crew of the Maersk Alabama. The crew members claim Phillips was at least partly at fault for an ""insistence on being fast and making money ... [getting] the Alabama within 250 miles of the Somali coast..."" Phillips told CNN's Drew Griffin in 2010 and in a court deposition in 2013 that he ignored the numerous warnings that urged him to go farther out to sea. When asked in 2013 why he decided"
"to deal with a situation in which Americans were aboard a ship seized by pirates in over 200 years. By noon, the Americans were able to resist the pirates and regain control of the ship. However, the pirates retreated on a covered life boat and held the captain hostage for four days. On April 12, 2009, it was confirmed that the captain held hostage was freed by the US Navy, whose SEAL sharpshooters killed three of the pirates. A fourth pirate surrendered earlier due to a medical injury. These events were subsequently dramatized in the 2013 film ""Captain Phillips"", directed"
"and is played by David Wenham. Phillip is referred to in the John Williamson song ""Chains around my ankle"". Phillip is a prominent character in a 2005 film The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant where he is portrayed by Sam Neill. Kate Grenville's 2008 novel ""The Lieutenant"" portrays Phillip through the character Commodore James Gilbert. Arthur Phillip Admiral Arthur Phillip (11 October 1738 – 31 August 1814) was a Royal Navy officer and the first Governor of New South Wales who founded the British penal colony that later became the city of Sydney, Australia. After much experience at sea, Phillip"