BURBANK (KRON) — A new movie is set to be made about the life of Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the Danville pilot who gained fame after the so-called “Miracle on the Hudson” in 2009. And none other than the Academy Award winning Clint Eastwood will produce and direct the film, Warner Bros. Pictures said.
The yet-to-be named biopic is to be adapted from Sullenberger’s 2009 memoir, “Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters.” The book chronicled the Bay Area pilot’s personal history before he famously landed a US Airways plane in the Hudson River in New York, saving the lives of all 155 people aboard.
The movie promises to capture the behind-the-scenes drama surrounding that landing, which the National Transportation Safety Board called “the most successful ditching in aviation history.”
“I am very glad my story is in the hands of gifted storyteller and filmmaker Clint Eastwood,” Sullenberger said in a statement.