Angelina Jolie, Tom Hanks in Jessica Buchanan Film by Sully Director Clint Eastwood?
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- Published on Wednesday, 30 November -0001 00:00
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After directing the Chesley Sullenberger biopic Sully, Clint Eastwood is set to make another biopic based on the real-life story of Jessica Buchanan. It will be based on Impossible Odds, the memoir Buchanan co-wrote with Erik Landemalm and Anthony Flacco.After directing the Chesley Sullenberger biopic Sully, Clint Eastwood is set to make another biopic based on the real-life story of Jessica Buchanan. It will be based on Impossible Odds, the memoir Buchanan co-wrote with Erik Landemalm and Anthony Flacco.Buchanan was kidnapped in October 2011 while working in Somalia. She and her fellow humanitarian aid worker Poul Hagen Thisted, who is from Denmark, were caught by land pirates after their escort and protector sold them out.On Jan. 25, 2012, Buchanan and Thisted were freed after having been held captive for three months in Somalia. Thanks to the team of United States Navy SEALs who raided a compound 12 miles north of the Somali town of Adow and in the process killed nine Somali pirates.In 2013, the film adaptation of Impossible Odds had already been eyed for the big screen. Greg Silverman and Julia Spiro will oversee the upcoming biopic of Buchanan for Eastwood’s longtime home studio, Warner Bros.Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland will write the screenplay of the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He was the writer of the films Mystic River and Blood Work, which were both directed by Eastwood.The cast of the film has yet to be announced. One actress who is likely to play Buchanan excellently is Angelina Jolie, who is a humanitarian herself.If Jolie is tapped to play Buchanan, it will not be her first biopic role as she played Gia Carangi, a 1970s top fashion model who died of AIDS, in the 1998 film Gia. An excellent choice to play Landemalm, Buchanan’s husband, in the upcoming biopic is her fellow Academy Award winner Tom Hanks, who played the title role in Eastwood’s Sully.Meanwhile, Jolie is said to be in talks to star in a biopic titled Shoot Like a Girl. It is a drama film about the Afghanistan war focusing on the story of Air Force Major Mary Jennings Hegar.
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