Real life heroes star in Clint Eastwood French attack movie (2015 attack on train)

[steve2470]

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-film-1517toparis/real-life-heroes-star-in-clint-eastwood-french-attack-movie-idUKKBN1FS35Y

This week, the three American childhood friends who overpowered a man wielding an assault rifle and a box cutter on a passenger train to Paris are starring in a Clint Eastwood movie about the attack, and it’s feeling a little surreal.

Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler and Alek Skarlatos from Sacramento, California, play themselves in the movie “The 15:17 to Paris,” opening in U.S. movie theaters on Friday.

After meeting the three men in their 20s at an awards show, Eastwood decided to make a film, but rather than casting actors, the Oscar-winning director called on the friends themselves.

“Three weeks before shooting, he’s like ‘Do you guys want to do it yourselves?’ and we were like ‘What? The movie starts in three weeks and we never took acting classes,'” Sadler said.

[Ohiogal]

1. Eastwood

Is a much better film producer/director than he is a politician.

My fave: Gran Torino

[MissMillie]

2. I liked Million Dollar Baby

Such a beautiful story of two people who needed each other and finding each other.

No spoilers here.

[Codeine]

3. Its weird that someone who makes films

that can create empathy for many disparate characters follows a political philosophy so void of kindness and empathy.

He’s a surprisingly skilled musician as well.