Clint Eastwood's film on 2015 French train terror attack to feature real-life bayani 

Clint Eastwood's film on 2015 French train terror attack to feature real-life heroes playing themselves

Clint Eastwood\'s film on 2015 French train terror attack to feature real-life heroes playing themselves

Sacramento: The three California men who thwarted a terror attack on a French train in 2015 will make the rare move of playing themselves in a Clint Eastwood-directed film about their heroics, a studio announced on 18 July.

Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, left, U.S. Airman Spencer Stone, center, and Anthony Sadler attend a parade held to honor the three Americans who stopped a gunman on a Paris-bound passenger train, in Sacramento, Calif. Image via AP

Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and civilian Anthony Sadler, all childhood friends from California, will star in

, a film based on the book they co-wrote about taking down a terrorist, Warner Bros said in a statement.

The film, which began production this week, follows the lives of the three friends from childhood to the evening when they helped subdue the man who opened fire inside a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris.

The Sacramento-area men were vacationing in Europe when they tackled Ayoub El-Khazzani, a man who authorities said has ties to radical Islam. El-Khazzani had boarded the Paris-bound train with a Kalashnikov rifle, pistol and box cutter.

The film will be the latest of several about real-life heroes that Clint Eastwood has taken on, including 2014\'s

. But the leads in those films were played by Oscar-nominee Bradley Cooper and Oscar-winner Tom Hanks, respectively, not their actual subjects.

It\'s common to give cameo roles to the subjects of films that don\'t require more than a line or two, but this case is nearly unprecedented in recent Hollywood history. There are no reports of the men having any acting experience, though Skarlatos appeared on

Nearly all who have played themselves on screen were actors to begin with, such as Kumail Nanjiani in the current release

The studio\'s statement did not elaborate on what prompted Eastwood and Warner Bros to cast the men.

Published Date: Jul 18, 2017 12:06 pm | Updated Date: Jul 18, 2017 12:06 pm

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