Greyhound
Tom Hanks is a Navy commander fight in WWII in the trailer forGreyhound . The two - time Oscar victor famously starred in Steven Spielberg ’s WWII movieSaving Private Ryanin 1998 , playing the loss leader of a group of U.S. soldier tasked with going behind enemy note and finding the eponymic character ( whose brothers were kill in combat ) . For his late WWII projection , Hanks will star as Ernest Krause , a Navy vocation military officer who ’s given his first command of a U.S. uprooter and tax with protect a convoy of confederative ships as they cross the North Atlantic , a wolf pack of Nazi uracil - boats spicy on their tail .
Based on C.S. Forester ’s bookThe Good Shepherd , Greyhoundwas also written for the screen by Hanks and directed by Aaron Schneider , marking the camera operator - turned film producer ’s first feature since his acclaimed debut on the dramaGet Lowin 2009 . Sony once had the celluloid schedule to open up as far back as March 2019 , but laterdelayed it by around fourteen monthsto May 2020 rather . Greyhoundhas since move back another month , even as the studio get its merchandising hunting expedition up and running in full .
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Today , Greyhoundreceived a newfangled prescribed release date ( Friday , June 12 ) , in addition to atrailerand poster . you may check out the latter two items below .
Judging by the trailer footage , Greyhoundhas all the elements of a right summer movie charge ride , complete with a straightforward , yet in high spirits - stake , storyline and visually impressive wartime spectacle ( no surprise there ; Schneider was a cameraman first , after all ) . That explains why Sony is releasing this one in the heat of the summertime smash hit season , as oppose to save up it for awarding season in the fall . Combine that with Hanks writing the handwriting and lending his gravitas to the lead role andGreyhoundseems a bunch more promising than its multiple release date postponement might suggest . Of naturally , there ’s a very real chance Sony decided to pushGreyhoundback from May to June in response to the still - unfoldingsituation with the coronavirus outbreak . Whileother May tentpoles ( likeBlack Widow)can’t really move out from their current date without causing big problems for their studios , something smaller likeGreyhoundhas a lot more freedom in that regard .
Either fashion , Greyhoundis now set to give directly against Nia DaCosta’sCandymansequel and will additionally face - off withWonder Woman 1984 in its second weekend of discharge . Hanks ' WWII plastic film will presumably have some overlap with theWonder Womansequel , but ought to skew a little sure-enough and may yet do alright by itself . Roland Emmerich ’s similarly effect - hard WWII movieMidwaydid modest business at the box government agency last November , though potentially salutary reviews and Hanks ' star - magnate could be enough to turnGreyhoundinto more of a full - blooded achiever by comparison . All in all , it will be interesting to see how this one is impacted by its relatively last - minute move at the box bureau .
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