When I first heard that Clint Eastwood was going to turn the story of Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger into a major motion picture, I had two thoughts: first, that the subject seemed almost too on-the-nose and down-the-middle-of-the-plate for a Hollywood heroic saga. (It sounded like the sort of thing that would have been a routine network TV-movie back in the ’80s or early ’90s.) And second, that the film might be more challenging to bring off than it initially seemed. After all, when Sullenberger glided Us Airways Flight 1549 down onto the Hudson River on Jan. 15, 2009, the entire emergency landing, from engine failure to plane stoppage, took three-and-a-half minutes. (Or more exactly, to quote a now-famous line, 208 seconds.) What was Eastwood going to do for the rest of the movie? At the time of the event, both the “Miracle on the Hudson” and Sully himself were so rapturously celebrated, by human...
- 9/25/2016
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety - Film News
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