Film still from “The 15:17 to Paris,” (2018), directed by Clint Eastwood. Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures.
A lawyer says Clint Eastwood’s new movie should be suspended so it doesn’t unfairly influence the judge investigating the incident it’s based on, according to the BBC.
“The 15:17 to Paris” tells the story of three Americans, two of them military members on leave, and other bystanders who subdued would-be attacker Ayoub El-Khazzani on a train in France in 2015. Eastwood, famous for “Dirty Harry,” “American Sniper” and “Sully,” had the three Americans, Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler, play themselves in the movie. It opens Friday.
A lawyer for Khazzani argues that because the French judge presideing over the case is still reviewing the evidence, the movie could be misleading.
Sarah Mauger-Poliak said the film was a violation of her client’s rights because it presents a “fictionalised” and “one-sided” view to the public as fact.
