Clint Eastwood Frames Anthony Sadler's College Graduation Day

Cap, gown and Hollywood movie deal

While 86-year-old Clint Eastwood was busy this weekend at the Cannes Film Festival, attending a swanky Saturday night Vanity Fair party and taking part in a Master Class discussion on Sunday, 24-year-old Anthony Sadler, whose heroic actions in France in 2015 will be brought to screen by Eastwood, was garnering some extra media attention as a Sacramento State University graduating student.

Two summers ago, Sadler and a pair of childhood pals were just another set of American tourists en route by train to Paris from Amsterdam when their heroic interruption of an armed terrorism assailant led to Legion of Honor medals, a local Sacramento parade, a book, speaking engagements and now, a Clint Eastwood movie deal.

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