Film on battling Somali pirates to get worldwide release in October

NEW DELHI: ‘Captain Phillps‘ directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Tom Hanks with Catherine Keener, will be released worldwide on 11 October.
 
Tom Hanks is a two-time Oscar winner and Oscar nominee Greengrass is director of the Bourne series of films.
 
‘Captain Phillips‘ is an action thriller from Columbia Pictures produced by Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, and Michael De Luca.
 
It is the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
 
The film is based on a screenplay by Billy Ray and based upon the book, ‘A Captain‘s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea‘, by Richard Phillips with Stephan Talty.