Who will play “Sully” Sullenberger in the inevitable “Miracle on the Hudson” flick?

January 17th, 2009 at 02:19am Chuck Sweeny

I figure that the “Miracle on the Hudson” will soon be either a TV movie or a cinema feature. Of course you know i’m talking about the water-landing of the US Airways flight that left LaGuardia on Thursday bound for Charlotte, N.C., hit a flock of geese and ditched into the Hudson River. All 155 on board were saved, thanks, everyone has concluded, to the cool-as a cucumber flying of ace pilot, Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III. Sully, a former Air Force fighter jet pilot, is a safety expert with his own consulting firm. He’s also an accident investigator who helps the National Transportation Safety Board. He’s advised NASA.

Oh, and he’s a certified glider instructor. So, Sully knew how to turn his Airbus 320 into a glider for the ride down the river.

Read Sully’s bio at his firm’s website:

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that if this were a movie, nobody would believe it. I believe it will be a movie, and people will have to believe it because it actually happened.

My question to you is, who should play “Sully?” I vote for Tom Hanks.

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