Actress Laura Linney is in talks to play Tom Hanks's wife in "Sully", Clint Eastwood's Warner Bros follow-up to "American Sniper".
This will be Linney's third teaming with Eastwood after "Mystic River" and "Absolute Power". Aaron Eckhardt will play the co-pilot, reports deadline.com.
The drama is about Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who became an American hero in 2009 when he engineered a miraculous emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River after a flock of geese hit the plane just after it took off from La Guardia Airport.
Linney will next be seen opposite Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Jude Law and Guy Pearce in the Michael Grandage-directed "Genius".
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