Todd Komarnicki is a Hollywood producer ("Elf") and writer whose screenplay for this week's Clint Eastwood film, "Sully," is exceptionally well-crafted. It was a great pleasure to talk to him about telling the story of Sully Sullenberger, the pilot who made an emergency landing on the Hudson River, and about why Tom Hanks keeps making movies about real-life stories of transportation disasters.
Everyone remembers the news stories about Sully and the images of the passengers standing on the...