Greyhound
Greyhound is a 2020 American war film directed by Aaron Schneider and starring Tom Hanks, who also wrote the screenplay. The film is based on the 1955 novel The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester, and follows a US Navy commander on his first assignment commanding a multi-national escort destroyer group of four, defending an Allied convoy from U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic. The film also stars Stephen Graham, Rob Morgan, and Elisabeth Shue.
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| Release date | June 12, 2020 (United States)
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| Country | United States
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| Language | English
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| Budget | $50.3 million
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- To prepare for the film, director Aaron Schneider put together a website of all Naval-related information in use at the time depicted in the film. He effectively created a database for the cast and crew.
- On January 25th, 2019, Sony Pictures announced that they would be pushing the film's release date back for more than a year. Originally scheduled to open two months later on March 22nd, 2019, the film was re-scheduled for release on Apple TV+ on July 10th, 2020. Additionally, Sony Pictures' other upcoming film starring Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), also had its release pushed back from October 18th, 2019 to November 22nd, 2019 that same day.
- The movie shows the U-Boat passing close to the Greyhound to be under her cannon and immune to fire, however, in reality when this naval tactic was performed, the Captain would order hard rudder to cause the boat to list thereby bringing the cannon down to bear. This is a centuries-old practiced counter maneuver. (This maneuver is demonstrated in many an old pirate or naval battle movie.)
- Some of the filming of this movie was done aboard Her Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS) "Montreal" in the North Atlantic in January 2018 with a film crew of 9 and 10 cameras.
- The escort call-signed Eagle has a radio operator with an English accent. A blink and you'll miss it shot reveals the ship to be a Polish Grom-class destroyer, implying the radio operator is an Englishman translating for the Polish crew.
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