The crew members ambush Muse, holding him at knifepoint, and arrange to release him and the other pirates into a lifeboat. Bilal cuts his feet when they reach the engine room, and Muse continues to search alone. Chief Engineer Mike Perry deactivates the power to the ship, plunging the lower decks into darkness. While they search the ship, Shane sees that the youngest pirate Bilal does not have sandals and tells the crew to line the engine room hallway with broken glass. Phillips offers Muse the $30,000 in the ship's safe, but Muse's orders are to ransom the ship and crew in exchange for millions of dollars of insurance money from the shipping company. As they board, Phillips tells the crew to hide in the engine room, just before the pirates storm the bridge and hold Phillips and the other crew members at gunpoint. Despite valiant efforts of Phillips and his crew, the pirates secure their ladder to the Maersk Alabama. The next day, Muse's skiff, now fitted with two outboard engines, returns with the same four pirates aboard. One skiff turns around in response, and the other – crewed by four heavily armed pirates led by Abduwali Muse – loses engine power trying to steer through Maersk Alabama 's wake. Knowing that the pirates are listening to radio traffic, he pretends to call a warship, requesting immediate air support. During the drill, the captain notices that the vessel is being followed by Somali pirates in two skiffs, and Phillips calls for help. Wary of pirate activity off the coast of the Horn of Africa, he and First Officer Shane Murphy order strict security precautions on the vessel and carry out a practice drill. Richard Phillips takes command of MV Maersk Alabama, an unarmed container vessel from the Port of Salalah in Oman, with orders to sail through the Guardafui Channel to Mombasa, Kenya. Captain Phillips received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Abdi. The film emerged as a critical and commercial success, receiving positive reviews from critics and grossing $220 million against a budget of $55 million. It premiered at the 2013 New York Film Festival, and was theatrically released on October 11, 2013. Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca served as producers on the project.

The screenplay by Billy Ray is based on Phillips's 2010 book A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea, which Phillips co-wrote with Stephan Talty. It stars Tom Hanks as Phillips, alongside Barkhad Abdi as pirate leader Abduwali Muse. Based on the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking, the film tells the story of the eponymous Captain Richard Phillips, a merchant mariner who was taken hostage by Somali pirates. Captain Phillips is a 2013 American biographical action thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass.

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