Clint Eastwood Defends Scenes Of Planes Crashing Into Skyscrapers In Sully

Clint Eastwood has spoken up about questions of taste over scenes of planes crashing into Manhattan skyscrapers in his new movie ‘Sully’.

The film tells the amazing true story of pilot Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger, and how he saved the lives of those aboard his US Airways flight by landing it safely on the Hudson River in 2009.

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But of a sequence in which planes fly into buildings, echoing that of the events of September 11, he told The Hollywood Reporter: “It’s just a bad dream sequence, and what could have happened if he didn’t make the right decision.

“The spirit it gave back the city, even though it was a tragic loss of a plane, there was no tragic loss of life.”

“His reputation was at stake,” added Tom Hanks, who plays Sullenberger in the movie.

“This man had done his job perfectly for 4 million passengers, and, as he says in the movie, his entire career was going to be judged on 208 seconds, as opposed to the thousands and thousands of hours he did his job perfectly.”

Sullenberger and his crew were forced to land the A320 Airbus after multiple bird strikes caused the plane’s engines to fail.

Though some passengers were injured, there were no fatalities, with the incident later being dubbed ‘the miracle on the Hudson’.

The film made its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival last week, with critics hailing Hanks for a solid performance.

Said Peter Debruge in Variety: “This is Hanks’ show, and he delivers a typically strong performance, quickly allowing us to forget that we’re watching an actor.

“With his snowy white hair and moustache to match, Hanks conveys a man confident in his abilities, yet humble in his actions, which could also be said of Eastwood as a director.”

It’s due out in the UK on December 2.

Image credits: Reuters/Warner Bros