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depicting WW2 on screen, Tom Hanks has a flawless track record,

which is reason enough to get excited about Greyhound – another

Hanks feature that unfolds in the theatre of war. But this time

America’s dad isn’t just starring, or simply producing; he penned the script

for Greyhound, his first screenplay since 2011’s Larry Crowne.

“It turned out that this was a pet

project for him – something he had

been working on in the background for

years,” says Aaron Schneider, the Get

Low director hired by Hanks to helm

Greyhound. An adaptation of C.S.

Forester’s 1955 novel The Good Shepherd,

it’s the story of newly promoted Navy

Commander Ernest Krause, whose first

assignment is to lead a convoy of 37

ships carrying troops to Europe across

the Atlantic. But the enemy has no

intention of allowing them to reach

land, dispatching a wolfpack of Nazi

U-boats to sink the Greyhound and all

who follow her.

While Schneider acknowledges that

“World War 2’s been done before, and

certainly Tom Hanks has done it

before,” he points out that “nobody’s

really explored naval battle – at least,

recently”. Instead, Hanks and

Schneider turned to the classics of the

(mini)genre from the 1940s and ’50s,

including Charles Frend classic The

Cruel Sea, to work out what makes naval

pictures sink or swim. “It was fun to

realise we could play in that sandbox

and still feel relatively new.”

But primarily, Schneider says, it’s

Greyhound’s narrative approach that

makes it unique. “I would call it a

thriller combined with an intense

character study,” the director explains.

GREYHOUND I Tom Hanks scripts, and stars in, a nautical

WW2 passion project