Hollywood’s next dalliance with pirates will be a very different beast to that of those light-hearted Caribbean escapades.
Deadline is reporting that Paul Greengrass (who seems to have spent the last year or so toying with a number of diverse projects) may have finally settled on his next directorial venture. The ‘Bourne’ filmmaker has been offered the Sony Pictures’ Somali pirate drama, which is based on the real-life exploits of the skipper of a cargo ship, who offered himself up as a hostage to the aforementioned pirates, only to be rescued by Navy SEALs three days after his abduction.
Based on the captain’s book which recounts the incident (A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea), Tom Hanks is down to play the lead, with scripting duties by Billy Ray (Flightplan, State of Play).
