A-list Hollywood director Clint Eastwood has recently scored big with movies about real American heroes, namely Sully (about pilot John Sullenberger, who safely crash-landed his plane in the Hudson River) and American Sniper (about jihadist-killer Chris Kyle).

Now the openly conservative Eastwood has decided to cast Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone -- the actual American heroes who thwarted a terrorist attack on a Paris train almost two years ago) -- to play themselves in his upcoming movie about the experience, according to The Hollywood Reporter (THR).

While traveling in Europe in August 2015, the three stopped an attempted attack on a train from Brussels to Paris by overpowering a jihadist who was armed with an AK-47. The story brought quite a bit of notoriety to the friends, one of whom was in the Oregon National Guard and another in the U.S. Air Force, were lauded for their bravery.   

As THR notes, the Warner Bros. movies is based on the book The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes, written by Sadler, Skarlatos, Stone and Jeffrey E. Stern. We smell Oscars.