Sony has released the first trailer for Captain Phillips from director Paul Greengrass and starring Tom Hanks as the title character.
The film is based on the true story of Captain Richard Phillips, the leader of the cargo ship Maersk Alabama who gave himself up as a hostage to Somali pirates to keep his crew from having to leave the ship with them.
Billy Ray (Breach) wrote the screenplay adapted from the book “A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea” by Richard Phillips and Stephen Tatty and along with Hanks, the film co-stars Catherine Keener, John Magaro, Max Martini, David Warshofsky, Chris Mulkey, Corey Johnson and Yul Vazquez.
This is the first film from Greengrass since Green Zone in 2010 and, of course, before that he gave us The Bourne Supremacy and Ultimatum along with United 93.
Captain Phillips is set for an October 11 release and a Toronto Film Festival premiere seems the most likely. Check out the first trailer below.
