Films like that (and others like the 2014 drama Unbroken and the 2013 war film Lone Survivor) defy box office predictions and it would be great to see Hollywood embrace such patriotic and original stories (one hopes that Eastwood's
next film Sully — about the pilot who overcame the odds and safely landed a disabled plane in the Hudson River — will fit the bill).
Not exact matches
Following
Sully and American Sniper, Clint Eastwood's The 15:17 To Paris is the
next film from the director that revolves around the story of real - life heroes.
Although the descent of Flight 1549 after it struck a flock of geese is depicted several times, including the nightmare from which
Sully awakens in the opening scene, the bulk of the
film concerns what happens
next, especially the increasingly hostile investigation by a panel accusing
Sully and his first officer, Jeff Skiles (Aaron Eckhart), of endangering their passengers by refusing to try for LaGuardia or Newark.
The
film follows American Sniper (2014) and
Sully (2016) as Eastwood's
next entry in flag - waving dramatisations of true stories.