While speaking with Newsday, Sully actor Aaron Eckhart detailed the painstaking effort that went into ensuring total accuracy in the creation of the film’s crash (a.k.a “forced water landing”) sequence.
There’s an obvious rationale for making the Miracle on the Hudson sequence look so realistic in Sully: it actually happened.
The intensity of the sequence was not lost on Aaron Eckhart either, as The Dark Knight actor would go on to remark upon the very “Hollywood” feel of the whole affair.
The event remains very firmly in our collective memory as a society, so director Clint Eastwood had to craft the most faithful sequence possible.