With Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener.

This disturbing tradition continues in the film Captain Phillips, starring Tom Hanks.

Directed by Paul Greengrass. But Captain Phillips’ second-in-command on the Alabama, First Mate Shane Murphy, said he’d actually be kind of interested in sitting down with Muse for a one-on-one. Captain Phillips, directed by Paul Greengrass, tells the true story of Richard Phillips (played by a New England-accented Tom Hanks), a merchant mariner taken hostage by Somali pirates in 2009. How does the real Captain Phillips rate the movie version of his private pirate drama? This movie depicts the real-life 2009 hijacking of an American cargo ship by Somali pirates. Every racialized stereotype about African people is present: Africans in the film are perpetually frightened, erratic, naive, and the old-school fall back, savage. The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.