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Three California men, who stopped a terror attack, to play themselves in new Clint Eastwood movie

They were on a French train in 2015, taking a vacation, when they tackled a man who went on an attack with a rifle, pistol and box cutter.

Now Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and civilian Anthony Sadler, will star in “The 15:17 to Paris,” a new Warner Brothers film, that’s being directed by Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood.

The movie is based on a book they co-wrote, about taking down Ayoub El-Khazzani, in a bloody battle to stop the terror attack.

And here’s the historic part, according to ABC News, “it’s common to give cameo roles to the subjects of films that don’t require more than a line or two, but this case is nearly unprecedented in recent Hollywood history.”

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