By Anthony Lane. February 11, 2018. In Clint Eastwood's film "The 15:17 to Paris," Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler, and Spencer Stone play themselves. Photograph by Keith Bernstein / Warner
Spencer John Stone (born August 13, 1992) is an American former United States Air Force staff sergeant. In August 2015, Stone, along with friends Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler and three other passengers, as well as an off-duty train driver, while travelling from Amsterdam on a high speed, Paris-bound train, disarmed and subdued a solitary, heavily armed Moroccan terrorist.Years later, that friendship would give all of them the courage to stand in the path of one of the world's deadliest terrorist organizations. The 15:17 to Paris is an amazing true story of friendship and bravery, of near tragedy averted by three young men who found the heroic unity and strength inside themselves at the moment when they, and 500 Eastwood also cast Stone and Sadler to play themselves in the movie, which was adapted from "The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train and Three American Heroes," a nonfiction Updates, 2/12: "The mark of a classical artist is to meet expectations while defying them, and that's what Clint Eastwood—eighty-seven years old, and the current American filmmaker whose firsthand links to classical movie traditions are strongest—does in The 15:17 to Paris, " argues the New Yorker 's Richard Brody.The movie is based on a book written by the trio and author Jeffrey E. Stern, called "The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes."ThmhUI. 28415433415744610127015479
