In teaming up with Clint Eastwood to portray heroic pilot Captain Chesley «Sully» Sullenberger, Hanks yet again shows that when it comes to depicting ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances (as he did in Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away, Captain Phillips et al), he's the best there is. (independent.ie)
Dr. Smith and the original series» heroic pilot Don West have both been reconceptualized: Smith as a sociopath con woman played by Parker Posey, West as a blue - collar crewmember and smuggler played by Ignacio Serricchio. (uproxx.com)
So they created an allegorical political fable — adding «new inspirations from real life,» said Anderson at Berlin — about a group of scruffy canines quarantined by a dog plague to Trash Island, who rescue Akira (Koyu Rankin), a Japanese orphan boy and heroic pilot in search of his dog Spots (Liev Schreiber). (indiewire.com)