9/12/2015

Jack Huston and Jake Lacy Have 'Their Finest Hour and a Half', Jerry Ferrara Joins 'Sully'


American Hustle's Jack Huston and Obvious Child's Jake Lacy have signed up for the screwball romantic comedy, Their Finest Hour and a Half. They join Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy in the Lone Scherfig (An Education) directed film set in the 1940s and following a British film crew's disastrous attempts to shoot a patriotic movie during the German Blitz of WWII. [Deadline]

Entourage star Jerry Ferrara has joined the cast of Clint Eastwood's biopic on Capt. Chelsey “Sully” Sullenberger III. Tom Hanks plays the hero pilot who successfully landed a damaged passenger plane onto the Hudson River in 2009. Ferrara's role is unknown at this point, but he joins fellow co-stars Laura Linney, who plays Sully's wife, and Aaron Eckhart as his co-pilot. [Variety]