Martin Scorsese’s“Killers of the Flower Moon” is still the number 1 movie on Apple TV+ in the US this week. However, “Greyhound,” starring Tom Hanks, is the third most-watched title on the platform for the same period, according to FlixPatrol.com. The second spot goes to “The Family Plan,” starring Mark Wahlberg.
The movie was directed by Aaron Schneider, who is known for “Get Low” (2009), and was originally released in 2020. Hanks wrote the screenplay for the film, which is based on the 1955 novel The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester.
The film follows a new US Navy commander who is in charge of a team of ships from different countries, protecting a group of 37 Allied ships from German U-boats in early 1942, right after the United States joined World War II.
‘Greyhound,’ a conversation with the past
Hanks is no stranger to World War II stories, as one of his most iconic movies is “Saving Private Ryan,” while he also has producing credits on the series “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific.” He says that as “a guy who has gone back to World War II again and again (in films), I see direct correlations to life as it is lived right now. I see the same questions being asked and the same solutions being pursued.”
As for his motivation to write this film, he said that when he read it he realized it was told through the perspective of its protagonist, who is not the “captain you would anticipate being in charge of the safety of all these ships. I had a very strong mental image of the DNA of the story and how it could possibly be the screenplay of a movie.”
The film also stars Stephen Graham, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Karl Glusman, Tom Brittney, Rob Morgan, and Elisabeth Shue. While the film was first set to be released theatrically, the pandemic changed the plans.
Either way, the film received great reviews from critics, who praise the action sequences and the tense atmosphere of the battle. The movie also earned a nomination for Best Sound at the 93rd Academy Awards of that year.