The capture of the American-crewed cargo ship Maersk Alabama in April 2009, the first United States ship to be hijacked in almost two centuries, catapulted the Somali pirates onto prime-time news. The recent bands of daring, ragtag pirates off the coast of Somalia, hijacking multimillion-dollar tankers owned by international shipping conglomerates, have brought the scourge of piracy into the modern era. Somalia is a place where a government has been built out of anarchy.įor centuries, stories of pirates have captured imaginations around the world. Getting there from North America is a 45-hour, five-flight voyage through Frankfurt, Dubai, Djibouti, Bosaso (on the Gulf of Aden), and, finally, Galkayo. Caught up in a decades-long civil war, Somalia, along with Iraq and Afghanistan, has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Its history is as rich as the country is old. Director Bryan Buckley shot the film in South Africa, and told Deadline he strived for accuracy, casting a range of Somali non-actors in parts for authenticity.Somalia, on the tip of the Horn of Africa, has been inhabited as far back as 9,000 B.C. Whether or not The Pirates of Somalia is an accurate representation of Bahadur's reporting is unclear. "In some places, like the coastal area, the pirates were more jittery and nervous," the author told The Christian Science Monitor. "A leader of one of the gangs there told people that I was CIA and that they shouldn't talk to me." Through a series of connections, Bahadur received unprecedented access to the pirates. Bahadur was one of the first journalists to actually spend time with Somali pirates, spending weeks in their company. The Pirates of Somalia is based on a true story, as chronicled in the book The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World by Jay Bahadur.
Hooking up with a local fixer (Barkhad Abdi), he attempts to embed himself with the local Somali pirates, only to find himself quickly in over his head. The Pirates of Somalia tells the incredible true story of one reporter's risk-taking adventure that ultimately brought the world an unprecedented first-person account of Somali Pirates the first close-up look into Somalia's rich culture. When rookie journalist Jay Bahadur (Evan Peters) has an inspiring chance encounter with his idol (Al Pacino), he uproots his life and moves to Somalia looking for the story of a lifetime.
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