FILM 1310: CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
TRIVIA: In real life, one of the
men from Richard Phillips' crew
sued him after the incident. He claimed that Phillips was well aware of the
danger in the Somali waters but went in anyway endangering all of them because
he wanted to get the shipment to harbour faster, even though the shipping
company itself sent him a note advising him to avoid the Somali seas.
The line "Look at me! I'm the
captain now", was an ad-lib by Barkhad Abdi.
During an interview on NPR's
"Fresh Air", Tom Hanks
said the first time he met the actors playing the Somali pirates was when they
started filming the pirates taking over the bridge. Paul Greengrass mentioned
he did this intentionally to build up tension between the actors on board the
ship and the actors playing the Somaili pirates.
Tom Hanks claimed that all
the interior lifeboat scenes were filmed inside a scale model that was actually
on water at all times, resulting in him being vomited on by crew members in the
cramped space.
Acting debut for all four of the
main Somali Pirates.
The hijacking of the Maersk Alabama
and hostage-taking of Captain Richard
Phillips were also central to the Elmore Leonard novel
"Djibouti" (2010).
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