EXCLUSIVE: The sequel to Tom Hanks and Apple‘s WWII motion pic Greyhound is lining up a January 2026 begin in Sydney, Australia, we will reveal.
Oscar winner Hanks will reprise his position as Captain Krause and has penned the script. Director Aaron Schneider returns as does producer Gary Goetzman for Playtone.
We perceive the following chapter within the Greyhound saga will comply with Krause and the Greyhound crew from the seashores of Normandy to the ocean within the Pacific as they assist flip the tide of the battle.
Talks are in course of with key forged from the primary film to reprise their roles. This contains Stephen Graham, who’s coming off rave critiques for Netflix hit Adolescence. Offers aren’t performed however expectations are excessive that the principle gamers shall be again.
Oscar nominated 2020 film Greyhound noticed Hanks play an inexperienced U.S. Navy commander who, quickly after the US’s entry into the battle, is tasked with main an Allied convoy being stalked by a German submarine wolf pack. It was primarily based on the 1955 novel The Good Shepherd. Solid additionally included Rob Morgan and Elisabeth Shue.
The well-received pic was impressed by occasions through the Battle of the Atlantic, which befell within the earliest months of America’s alliance with Nice Britain and the Allied Forces in opposition to Nazi Germany and its allies.
The sequel is the most recent Apple Authentic to hail from Hanks and Goetzman’s Playtone. The companions beforehand teamed up with Amblin on WWII sequence Masters of the Air.
The companions on the sequel declined to remark.
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Greyhound, Tom Hanks, Stephen Graham, 2020. © Columbia Footage / Courtesy Everett Assortment