Now, in 2018, Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone play themselves in director Clint Eastwood's "The 15:17 to Paris," the once-again true story of how a trio of friends disarmed So 'The 15:17 to Paris' Stars Are the Actual Guys Who Stopped the Paris Attack. When you're told that a movie is based on a true story, there's usually some skepticism about how true that Directed by Clint Eastwood, this drama has a first half that's slow and awkward, mainly due to the stars' amateurish acting; but once it finally gets going, Eastwood's skilled touch reveals itself. The 15:17 to Paris isn't the first movie to cast non-actors in key roles (see Act of Valor), and it faces most of the same problems as Skarlatos, Stone, and Sadler struggle through memorized dialogue. The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes. An ISIS terrorist planned to kill more than 500 people. He would have succeeded except for three American friends who refused to give in to fear. On August 21, 2015, Ayoub El-Khazzani boarded train #9364 in Brussels, bound for Paris. Hardcover $27.99 ( 416pp) 978-1-982546-84-7. With its pivotal focus on Coco Chanel's reported World War II work as a Nazi spy, Pamela Binnings Ewen's novel The Queen of Paris fictionalizes the thoughts and motivations of the French design icon--a complex, controlled woman who rose from poverty to great fame and who guarded her creations The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes: By Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, Spencer Stone, Jeffrey E. Stern ) PublicAffairs 256 pp. .

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