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Trailer: Tom Hanks battles self-doubt and torpedoes in WWII actioner ‘Greyhound’

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Tom Hanks makes a play for some summer blockbuster dollars in Greyhound, an inspired by true events World War II action thriller penned by Hanks himself, based on The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester.

The story follows US Navy Commander Ernest Krause (Hanks) on his first war-time assignment at the midpoint of World War II during the Battle of the Atlantic, as he leads his an international convoy of 37 Allied ships while being hotly pursued by wolf packs of German U-boats.

The film also stars Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Elisabeth Shue, Stephen Graham and Rob Morgan. It was directed by Aaron Schneider (Get Low) and produced by Gary Goetzman (Tom Hanks’ co-founder of their production company Playtone).

Greyhound will emerge exclusively to Apple TV+ on July 10. Here is the first trailer.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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