Written by Buchanan and her husband Erik Landelmalm, Impossible Odds recounts her experience of being kidnapped by Somali militants and later rescued by a navy Seal team in 2012 while working as a humanitarian aid worker in east Africa.
Following American Sniper and Sully, Clint Eastwood is set to tackle another real-life story by adapting Jessica Buchanan’s memoir Impossible Odds, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Brian Helgeland, who worked with Eastwood on Mystic River and Blood River, is reportedly writing the script.
Sully follows Eastwood’s 2014 success American Sniper, which starred Bradley Cooper as US navy hero Chris Kyle.