Clint Eastwood Puts Hollywood To Shame, Shows Them What A Real American Movie Is

Clint Eastwood has broken new ground in his new movie “The 15:17 to Paris.” The movie tells the little known story of three Americans who stopped a terrorist attack on a train traveling from Belgium to France.

Variety magazine calls the move to cast the three Americans as themselves as unprecedented.

The Americans that appear in the film are Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone.

The three Americans, aged 23, 22 and 23, respectively, star in the film that depicts the actual events that led to their heroism. Skarlatos and Stone are both members of the United States military and the movie depicts their intervention when Ayoub el-Khazzani, an Islamic terrorist, opened fire on a the France bound train with a total of 554 passengers on board.

Eastwood based his movie on the book version of events “The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes,” written by the three men with the help of Jeffrey E. Stern.

The film follows the three men, and goes through their pasts and what lead them to that spot, and lead them to be so courageous.

According to reports, El-Khazzani boarded the train with heavy firepower, intending to kill everybody on the train, when a Frenchman learned of his intentions, the two struggled and a shot went off, injuring another passenger.

Within a few minutes, the three Americans leaped into action and were part of the brigade who took down El-Khazzani.

In an interview with CBS, Skarlatos explained that his reaction was a “gut instinct.”

Stone told CBS in the interview that the assailant was “ready to fight to the end.” He added that he and his friends were just as ready to see things until the end as well in order to stop the terrorist.

I know what movie I will be seeing in theaters this year, this looks like a fantastic movie with the awesome premise of letting the original characters play themselves, hats off the  Clint for this one.