Tom Hanks’ World War II Drama ‘Greyhound’ Gets Its Apple TV+ Premiere Date [Updated]
By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 11, 2020 2:04 pm EST
On the heels of reports that Apple TV+ was starting to build out its feature film and TV library to better compete with Netflix and other streamers, the platform has landed the premiere of Tom Hanks’ World War II battleship drama Greyhound, according to Deadline.
Recently set for Father’s Day weekend by Sony, Greyhound is changing course and foregoing theaters altogether — an increasingly common move amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The film was set to be a major theatrical release for Sony, but with the pandemic set to keep theaters closed for the summer months, the studio quietly shopped Greyhound out to streamers, where it became the center of a big bidding battle. Deadline reports that Apple TV+ closed the deal for roughly $70 million.
Greyhound stars and is written by Hanks, who adapts the novel The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester, which was published back in the 1950s. This marks Hanks’ first screenplay credit since his mostly forgotten 2011 directorial effort Larry Crowne. Aaron Schneider helms this project, which also stars Stephan Graham, Rob Morgan, and Elizabeth Shue.
Here’s the synopsis for Greyhound:
No release date has yet been set for Greyhound’s Apple TV+ premiere.
The only thing more dangerous than the front lines was the fight to get there. In the early days of WWII, an international convoy of 37 Allied ships, led by captain Ernest Krause (Tom Hanks) in his first command of a U.S. destroyer, crosses the treacherous North Atlantic while hotly pursued by wolf packs of Nazi U-boats.
