Looks like Tom Hanks isn’t done battling Nazis just yet. The follow-up to Apple’s WWII action flick “Greyhound” is happening, in fact, production has begun on the film in Australia.
Hanks will be slipping back into the uniform of Captain Krause, and much like the first film, he also wrote the screenplay! Stephen Graham (“Adolescence”) will also return in a supporting role. Director Aaron Schneider, a former DP, is back in the captain's chair, along with producer Gary Goetzman.
The cast is being rounded out by newcomerJack Patten — Rob Morgan and Elisabeth Shue are also set to reprise their roles from the original. No word yet on a release date, but 2027 is starting to look likely.
This time, the story is said to ditch the North Atlantic for something a bit more tropical. The sequel picks up post-Normandy, tracking Krause and his trusty crew as they steer into the Pacific to help swing the war in the Allies' favor.
“Greyhound” was a significant success for Apple TV+ during the pandemic, becoming the platform's largest opening weekend release at the time. Released on July 10, 2020, and according to the streamer, the film attracted a viewership comparable to that of a major summer theatrical hit, despite its initial plan for a theatrical debut being disrupted by the pandemic.
Before COVID hit, they were supposed to release the first one on the big screen, but it got delayed, numerous times, from 2018, to 2019, to finally its July 2020 streaming date, which was almost three years after production wrapped.
Given their recent moves, will Apple release the sequel in theaters? There’s no word yet on that front, but—aside from only a handful of films per year, if that—the streamer has essentially given up on theatrical releases.
Lars Von Trier is working on the 15th—and likely final—film of his career, “After,” and according to his producer, Peter Aalbæk Jensen, the screenplay is supposed to be completed this month