![]() ![]() "I do not like the movie named after me, as it makes it out to be just me out there," he told Destination Vermont, a travel magazine. ![]() Phillips himself has been exceedingly modest about his role in the Maersk Alabama drama. In Captain Phillips, it's a toss-up who should get the hero's garland-the film's eponymous captain, his well-trained and fast-acting crew, or the Navy SEALs who rescued Phillips after the pirates took him hostage and tried to escape in a small boat. On October 11, Captain Phillips got his second 15 minutes of international acclaim when Sony Pictures unveiled a big-budget film based on his book. But as he recalls in his 2010 memoir, A Captain's Duty (co-authored with Stephan Talty), "the Phillips are a wild bunch with our own brand of humor, which not everyone gets.One example: That night, my sisters were joking.about Hollywood making a film about the hostage-taking and began casting all the parts." According to Phillips, his siblings favored the dashing George Clooney to play the lead role.įour years after his near-death experience off the coast of Africa, America's most famous maritime union member has had to settle for Tom Hanks instead. WHEN SOMALI pirates captured Captain Richard Phillips in 2009, his large Irish-American family gathered at a farmhouse in Vermont to await news of his fate.Īt the time, the Maersk Alabama's skipper was just one AK-47 round away from perishing at sea. ![]()
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