What have been you doing in the course of the 2020 lockdown? Experimenting with a sourdough bread starter? Studying to code? Embracing mind rot on TikTok? Effectively, whereas the remainder of you have been being productive, a few of us have been desperately attempting to look at new motion pictures wherever we might get them. Fortunately, Apple TV+ positive scratched that itch with the straight-to-streaming launch of “Greyhound.” The Tom Hanks-starring film adopted a Naval commander answerable for a convoy of ships tasked with traversing waters infested with Nazi U-boats and different threats within the early years of World Battle II. It got here, it went, and did not make a lot of a fuss in both course (as you may learn from /Movie’s evaluation on the time by Josh Spiegel). It was a peak Dad Film™ in each sense of the phrase, and it appeared prefer it did its job.
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In all honesty, I most likely by no means would’ve thought of this film once more … till as we speak’s sudden information. Deadline studies that Apple and Hanks are as soon as once more teaming up for a “Greyhound” sequel as a result of, because it seems, there’s at all times an urge for food for generic WWII-era battle movies starring America’s favourite dad. Actually, they’re bringing the entire gang again collectively — Hanks will return as Naval Commander Ernie Krause (who’s not an actual particular person from historical past, although the story is “loosely based mostly” on precise occasions) and he’ll be joined by returning director Aaron Schneider. The primary film additionally starred Elisabeth Shue as Krause’s spouse Evelyn and “Adolescence” actor Stephen Graham as Lieutenant Commander Charlie Cole, and Deadline hints that each are in talks to reprise their respective roles.
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What is going to the sequel be about? Why is Apple shifting ahead with a sequel to a film from 5 years in the past that everyone (besides our dads) most likely forgot about? We’re glad you requested!
What is going to the Greyhound sequel be about?
If you happen to ever needed to look at Tom Hanks barking orders, motivating troopers, and attempting desperately to dodge torpedoes whereas main a convoy of overmatched ships by means of the Battle of the Atlantic, effectively, “Greyhound” is the film for you. Whereas Apple TV+ does not hassle releasing streaming figures for its originals, the 2020 movie should’ve induced sufficient of a stir to justify a complete sequel. However after the occasions of the primary film (spoiler alert: Tom Hanks does Tom Hanks issues and saves the day), is there even all that a lot house for an additional film to go and inform a complete different sea-faring journey?
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People, enable me to introduce you to an obscure quantity of supply materials often known as World Battle II. In all seriousness, the primary “Greyhound” film was based mostly on a 1955 novel titled “The Good Shepherd” from creator C. S. Forester. Although the movie informed the story to completion (and in largely devoted element), this sequel appears to increase the story past the pages of the ebook. Fortunately, there actually is no scarcity of instructions to take the motion subsequent. Deadline has the inside track on what this “Greyhound” sequel will discover, describing the plot as:
We perceive the following chapter within the ‘Greyhound’ saga will observe 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.
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The sequel is at present gearing up for a manufacturing begin in January of subsequent 12 months, which implies, extremely sufficient, it’s going to be pushing nearer to seven years because the authentic earlier than this follow-up movie lastly arrives. Nonetheless, I suppose “Greyhound” does have the excellence of being an Oscar-nominated movie (Finest Sound) and there is definitely way more head-scratching properties to show right into a franchise. Dads of the world, you will have one other Tom Hanks battle film to placed on and quietly nap to quickly sufficient!
