Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips, Greengrass is Back

Directed by Paul Greengrass, starring Tom Hanks, about the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama – Captain Phillips has much heft behind it in the producing department, the same people behind The Social Network – Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, and Michael De Luca. Cinematography by Barry Ackroyd (Hurt Locker, United 93). You’re possibly looking at one of your Best Picture contenders but it is, of course, too soon to know.

Though he’s mostly known for the Bourne series now, Greengrass got an Oscar nod for United 93 but, for whatever reason, the film was deemed “too much of a downer” for voters overall.