Cody Walker will be working along side Nicolas Cage for his first significant feature film.
According to Deadline, Walker has had experience with standing in as his brother in the “Furious”; films, but now the 27-year-old is cast for “USS Indianapolis”;
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The film follows the story of Captain Charles McVay, played by Cage, the commander whose boat sank after being hit my a torpedo while the crew was delivering parts of an atom bomb that was later dropped on Hiroshima.
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Of the 1,196 crew on the boat, only 317 survived with the others were eaten by sharks as they waited four days for rescue.
Walker will be playing one of the Navy men who struggle for survival.