By Sunday Life

The fact that the piracy crisis off the Horn of Africa has often resembled a script written in Hollywood has not escaped the notice of the movie industry.

A bidding war is under way in Los Angeles for film rights to the story of Richard Phillips, the US sea captain whose dramatic rescue from Somali pirates captivated people around the world last month.

The auction comes less than a week after Samuel L Jackson bought the life rights of a Kenyan piracy expert, whom he intends to play in a coming movie.

The captain, who survived five days aboard a lifeboat with four gunmen before three of them were shot dead by navy snipers, is being represented by Creative Artists Agency, one of the biggest players in Hollywood, which has had Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts on its books.

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