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The crew members claim Phillips was at least partly at fault for an "insistence on being fast and making money. Since the release of Captain Phillips, there has been controversy over its portrayal of Phillips, with several crew members claiming that he was not the hero presented in the film, according to lawsuits filed by more than half of the crew of the Maersk Alabama. "For me it was really a relief-my crew and ship were safe." Phillips also added, "I never lost hope for myself, but I didn't see a good ending coming out of it." Phillips commented in his interview that the rendition of the events is accurate, adding, "When I met, I told him if he's going to play me, he's going to have to put on a little weight and get a little better-looking and he did neither." "My crew were now safe, because the pirates lost their ladder and boat when they boarded the Maersk Alabama, so they couldn't get back onboard," says Phillips.
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In an interview on the set of Captain Phillips for New York Daily News, Phillips describes his devotion to his crew, his feeling of success as a captain and his eagerness to get back to sea.
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The film, titled Captain Phillips, was released on Octo and had its premiere showing at the 2013 New York Film Festival. In March 2011, it was announced that Tom Hanks would star as Phillips, Barkhad Abdi as Abduwali Muse and Faysal Ahmed as Najee in a Sony Pictures film based on the hijacking and Phillips' book, scripted by Billy Ray, and produced by the team behind The Social Network. Columbia Pictures optioned the book and acquired the film rights in spring 2010. Phillips publicly thanks sailors for his dramatic rescue at sea.įollowing the hijacking, Phillips published A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea. He later pleaded guilty to hijacking, kidnapping and hostage-taking charges and was sentenced to over 33 years in prison. A fourth pirate, Abduwali Muse, aboard the Bainbridge and speaking with military negotiators while being treated for an injury sustained in the takeover of Maersk Alabama, surrendered and was taken into custody. Navy SEAL snipers on Bainbridge's fantail opened fire, killing the three pirates with bullets to the head one of the pirates was named Ali Aden Elmi, another's last name was Hamac, and the third remains unidentified. The Bainbridge captain Commander Frank Castellano ordered the action after determining that Phillips' life was in immediate danger, based on reports that a pirate was pointing an AK-47 automatic rifle at his back. Navy marksmen from DEVGRU (commonly known as SEAL Team Six) opened fire and killed the three pirates on the lifeboat, and Phillips was rescued. Three days later, on Sunday, April 12, U.S. On April 9, a standoff began between the Bainbridge and the pirates in the Maersk Alabama lifeboat, where they continued to hold Phillips hostage. Phillips was held captive in the lifeboat by Somali pirates for five days. Federal Bureau of Investigation secured the ship as a crime scene. An 18-man marine security team was on board. Aasheim had previously been captain of the Maersk Alabama until Richard Phillips relieved him eight days prior to the pirate attack. Captain Larry Aasheim then assumed command. On Saturday, April 11, Maersk Alabama arrived in Mombasa, still under U.S. Maersk Alabama then departed from the area with an armed escort, towards its original destination of the port of Mombasa. On April 8, the destroyer USS Bainbridge and the frigate USS Halyburton were dispatched to the Gulf of Aden in response to the hostage situation, and reached Maersk Alabama early on April 9. The lifeboat was carrying ten days of food rations, water, and basic survival supplies. The captured pirate was released, but the pirates left with Phillips in the lifeboat before the crew could take action. According to a crew member, Phillips and the pirates got into the ship's rescue boat, but it would not start, so the crew dropped a lifeboat and met the pirates to switch prisoners and boats. The crew attempted to exchange the captured pirate, whom they had kept tied up for twelve hours, for Phillips. The crew later overpowered one of the pirates. As the pirates were boarding the ship, the crew members locked themselves in the engine room. The 28-foot lifeboat where Phillips and the four Somali pirates were held up as seen from a US Navy Boeing ScanEagle UAV.Īccording to Chief Engineer Mike Perry, the crew sank the pirate speedboat shortly after the boarding by continuously swinging the rudder of the Maersk Alabama, thus swamping the smaller boat.