Looks like Tom Hanks is set to continue his partnership with Apple TV+. Following News Of The World, Finch, and Masters Of The Air (for which he served as an executive producer), Hanks has set a sequel to his film Greyhound at the streamer. Hanks will write the screenplay (as he did the 2020 original), with Aaron Schneider returning to direct. Per Deadline, the film is slated to film in January 2026.
If you know anything about Tom Hanks, you know his passions are typewriters and history, particularly the history of 20th-century warfare (See: Saving Private Ryan, Band Of Brothers, Masters Of The Air, etc.). Greyhound follows a U.S. Naval Commander (played by Hanks) leading an Allied convoy from German U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic. According to Deadline, “the next chapter in the Greyhound saga will follow Krause and the Greyhound crew from the beaches of Normandy to the ocean in the Pacific as they help turn the tide of the war.” The outlet reports that “expectations are high” for other main cast members to return for the sequel. The OG cast included Elisabeth Shue, Rob Morgan, and Adolescence star Stephen Graham.
In 2022, Apple announced an exclusive multi-year overall deal with Hanks’ and Gary Goetzman’s production company Playtone, a collaboration that has been quite fruitful of late. In December, the streamer announced an adaptation of the novel Sheepdogs (about “two elite paramilitary soldiers down on their luck”). And just this week, Apple greenlit another Playtone adaptation, this one a series based on Philip Kerr’s Berlin Noir novels. The first season will reportedly follow the plot of Metropolis, which tells the origin story of detective Bernie Gunther. Meanwhile, as an actor, Hanks recently starred in Robert Zemeckis’ Here and will next appear in Wes Anderson’s upcoming film The Phoenecian Scheme.
