Tom Hanks has had some success with real-life stories, and, along with director Paul Greengrass (also no stranger to truth-based filmmaking), will be hoping for great things from his latest, Captain Phillips.When Somali pirates hijacked his ship, the Maersk Alabama, in 2009, Captain Richard Phillips and some of his crew were taken hostage and faced real peril on the sea.

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How Phillips and co dealt with their captivity became the subject of national headlines and made the captain something of a hero, landing a book deal and plenty of TV appearances.Now, Greengrass, working with writer Billy Ray, has turned that story into his next taut, based-on-reality thriller. After some false starts, filming kicked off last year in several US locations, in the Mediterranean, Malta, Morocco and here in the UK, with newcomers playing the pirates and Catherine Keener, Max Martini and John Magro also aboard the cast.

Captain Phillips” unfurls with an intensity that knocks the wind out of you. Director Paul Greengrass’ film — which opens the 51st New York Film Festival tonight before hitting theaters Oct. 11 — is the most gripping based-on-fact film so far this year.In turning a nonfiction book into a high-tension action-drama, Greengrass (“United 93,” “The Green Zone”) has made cinematic gold. It’s like a sea-bound “Dog Day Afternoon,” only with the hostages as the heroes. But instead of a milquetoast middle manager, the title character is played with guts and gusto by Tom Hanks.Hanks’ Phillips is a career seaman, with a wife (Catherine Keener) in Vermont and two kids in college. In March 2009, he takes a job helming a cargo vessel from Oman to Kenya. Their course takes them around the Horn of Africa, an area bedeviled by pirates.