"Captain Phillips": Let's See Tom Hanks Charm His Way Out of Somali Piracy

Well, why not make a true-life procedural thriller about the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama, the first American vessel to be boarded by pirates in 200 years? And why not cast Tom Hanks as the container-ship skipper who played a good strategic game against his attackers — at least unti...