Apple Shares Inside Look at Upcoming WWII Movie 'Greyhound' With Tom Hanks

[DeepIn2U]

Another WW2 movie with Tom Hanks. I’m not sure I’m interested even with the preview or behind the scenes. Every year there is some “untold” tale of WWII it seems to be a commodity vs a true tale of something that was horrible loss of life and heroics - true heroics (not that crap Hollywood is selling us and has been)!

where is the war story of a woman or man that saved lives barely alive lost limbs or sight and still is part of a loving relationship with friends back home, or platoon members whom every day or week show their gratitude of being alive to the one that sacrificed for them. Or platoon member that struggles and gave up selfish love to raise an orphan of the man thatsacrificed their life for them to live?

if this movie has it, I’ll watch it. If not I may skip this for a later time.

 

[C DM]

In an interview to The Guardian, Hanks said that the move to streaming is “an absolute heartbreak. I don’t mean to make angry my Apple overlords, but there is a difference in picture and sound quality.” In addition to starring in the World War 2 drama, Hanks has also written it. His irritation at the situation seemed to extend to the publicity ‘tour’ as well. “The cruel whipmasters at Apple,” he said, had even dictated that his background for Zoom interviews be a solid wall. He said it made it look like he was in “a witness protection programme. But here I am, bowing to the needs of Apple TV.”

🤣🤪@Apple

Tom Hanks Discusses 'Heartbreaking' Shift of WWII Film Greyhound From Theatrical Blockbuster to Apple TV+ Exclusive

Tom Hanks' WWII drama "Greyhound" is set to premiere on Apple TV+ this Friday, July 10, and ahead of that debut the actor gave an...

www.macrumors.com

 

[igetit]

I wonder how happy Tom Hanks really is about the Apple TV+ Launch. Sounds like whining to me if he got paid...

Tom Hanks said the 'cruel whipmasters at Apple' made him do an interview in front of a blank wall so people couldn't scrutinize things in his home

Hanks told The Guardian that while it made him look like he was in "a witness protection programme," "here I am, bowing to the needs of Apple TV."

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Takeo]

Is it free with AppleTV+ or is there an additional charge? Pretty amazing if it was meant for theatrical release but will now be free with AppleTV+

 

[TVreporter]

Love Tom Hanks - may be finally time to activate that free Apple TV+ account!

 

[Rigby]

Time to activate the free year of Apple TV+ due to the iMac purchase in December. Thanks, Apple for a great sounding movie with a great actor in Tom Hanks.

Uhm, this is probably too late since you have to activate the free year within 90 days after activating the eligible device.

 

[Ar40]

I wonder how happy Tom Hanks really is about the Apple TV+ Launch. Sounds like whining to me if he got paid...

Tom Hanks said the 'cruel whipmasters at Apple' made him do an interview in front of a blank wall so people couldn't scrutinize things in his home

Hanks told The Guardian that while it made him look like he was in "a witness protection programme," "here I am, bowing to the needs of Apple TV."

www.businessinsider.com

Tom Hanks has another VERY high profile series coming out on Apple TV+. HBO passed on it after waffling for years on producing it. Masters of the Sky. I can assure you that Tom Hanks is grateful to Apple. He just said he was disappointed that it wasn't coming to big screens - which I fully understand. He also said Apple's PR team dictated to him how to interview - but in a later interview the next day he is sitting in front of his bookshelf - so it looks like Tim Cook saw the first bad PR interview and changed his policy very fast. Heads probably rolled from that internally.
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Is it free with AppleTV+ or is there an additional charge? Pretty amazing if it was meant for theatrical release but will now be free with AppleTV+

Anything which Apple releases as an exclusive Apple Original comes with Apple TV+. That's the whole point of TV+, it's Apple exclusive movies and TV shows. What would TV+ be otherwise? Only TV shows? Nope.

 

[Ortiz83]

The answer to this question is actually, no they did not. It was produced by Tom Hanks' production company Playtone and Sony Pictures. Sony sold it to apple for 70 mil. Apple was not involved in any way with the movie until money changed hands. Yes Netflix does this too, but it doesn't make it right. If I buy a painting, that doesn't mean it is my original artwork.

Yes, it doesn’t mean that but you can still slap a label on it saying it was.
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In an interview to The Guardian, Hanks said that the move to streaming is “an absolute heartbreak. I don’t mean to make angry my Apple overlords, but there is a difference in picture and sound quality.” In addition to starring in the World War 2 drama, Hanks has also written it. His irritation at the situation seemed to extend to the publicity ‘tour’ as well. “The cruel whipmasters at Apple,” he said, had even dictated that his background for Zoom interviews be a solid wall. He said it made it look like he was in “a witness protection programme. But here I am, bowing to the needs of Apple TV.”

🤣🤪@Apple

Then he said....
"Barring that, Apple has saved the day for us," Hanks added. "We had a magnificent movie that was not going to be seen. Apple is a benevolent streaming service in every way. We are going to be able to fill up the screens in the living rooms and the bean-bag chairs of the world all in one fall shot, so we feel as though we were rescued at sea by a convoy with a big Apple logo with a bite taken out of it," Hanks said. I'm actually thrilled that Apple TV+ is making it possible for everybody to see it This is a magnificent gift that's come to us because of Apple because COVID-19 did something heartbreaking to us all: it closed down the theaters. We don't have the cinema. There isn't anybody that doesn't like going to see a good movie with 800 people and coming out with something in common. Barring that, Apple has saved the day for us. We had a magnificent movie that was not going to be seen. Apple is a benevolent streaming service in every way. It's going to look fantastic but it's going to be available. It is going to be viewable, and otherwise we would've languished in a vault for a movie that is 88 minutes of a thematic story that does speak to what we're all going through right now. We didn't know that at the time we made the film, we were just trying to make a lean, new spare version about procedures and behaviors about how difficult it was to stay alive in the North Atlantic in 1942. It's a magnificent deal and we are going to be able to fill up the screens in the living rooms and the bean-bag chairs of the world all in one fall shot, so we feel as though we were rescued at sea by a convoy with a big Apple logo with a bite taken out of it.

 

[Digital Dude]

Maybe they'll finally have a good movie..

The movie trailer with Tom Hanks looks good. I watched one of the first Apple movies' with Jason Momoa, and I thought it sucked.

 

[Ar40]

The movie trailer with Tom Hanks looks good. I watched one of the first Apple movies' with Jason Momoa, and I thought it sucked.

You mean first TV series? See? Ok. That's your opinion. I personally loved it.

 

[jjudson]

Early reviews for this film haven’t been good. It seems that the story is thin, the film too short, and most of all, the CGI is purportedly terrible. Some have even said this is a perfect direct-to-streaming film and that it wouldn’t have done well on the big screen.

We’ll see. I’m a former tin can man myself, so I would love for this to be good.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I will give it a watch. Hopefully, it will be as good as “Saving Private Ryan.”

 

[BWhaler]

Looks great. Cant wait.

AppleTV is having a banner first year. Great value.

 

[ikir]

How many World War 2 movies do we need?!? This has been getting old years ago! Why can’t we have a „great“ movie (history speaking) about the Spaniards wiping out the civilization of Central America or Belgium, the Dutch (pick a Country really) Messing up Africa? Maybe a movie on how the whole slave trade started? Why always WW2. Pick a different war Hollywood 😴 there are so many other wars to learn from and to never repeat again

Don’t worry we will have movies about WWIII soon, just wait 5 years.

 

[Millah]

The movie theme is engaging. The first and only decent picture on TV+. But how are they gonna make up $100 million? Not to mention the money they wasted on nasty See and lousy other content. I wish Cook spent this much gratuitous income on new hardware and software efforts. If he really wanted to hemorrhage over a billion dollars he should have just Bought Disney like Jobs was going to and he’d have way better content for the money, and amusement parks ans hotels to integrate with iOS and devices.

Uh I’m pretty sure they ARE. They can do both, can’t they? They certainly have enough money to fund both content AND hardware/software efforts.

Since you seem to have a firm grasp of Apple’s accounting, how much exactly are they spending on hardware/software development? Considering Apple’s R&D budget now exceeds $1 billion, I’d love for you (who so clearly has all the inside information about company finances) to break down how that budget gets spent.

Or wait...you probably have no clue what you’re talking about. Never mind then.
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The answer to this question is actually, no they did not. It was produced by Tom Hanks' production company Playtone and Sony Pictures. Sony sold it to apple for 70 mil. Apple was not involved in any way with the movie until money changed hands. Yes Netflix does this too, but it doesn't make it right. If I buy a painting, that doesn't mean it is my original artwork.

Which is why I’m certain the production company and movie studio will be credited. I’m sure the movie will open with the production company intros, the usual end credits etc, like every movie ever for the past several decades. Lol.

Your analogy is also completely off mark. Buying a painting as a consumer is not the same as buying/licensing ownership of the intellectual property.

Record labels have no involvement with the creative process of music production, they simply finance and distribute the albums. That doesn’t mean they don’t get to put their logo on the album and own the rights.

 

[Jim Higgins]

Hom Tanks is a great actor, one of my favorites along with Prad Bitt and Conn Seanery.

Lit that bike hutton if you agree!

But a poor second to "The Enemy Below".

 

[scubachap]

Another WW2 movie with Tom Hanks. I’m not sure I’m interested even with the preview or behind the scenes. Every year there is some “untold” tale of WWII it seems to be a commodity vs a true tale of something that was horrible loss of life and heroics - true heroics (not that crap Hollywood is selling us and has been)!

where is the war story of a woman or man that saved lives barely alive lost limbs or sight and still is part of a loving relationship with friends back home, or platoon members whom every day or week show their gratitude of being alive to the one that sacrificed for them. Or platoon member that struggles and gave up selfish love to raise an orphan of the man thatsacrificed their life for them to live?

if this movie has it, I’ll watch it. If not I may skip this for a later time.

The Battle of the Atlantic which lasted pretty much the length of the war should fit the bill admirably for the sort of stories you'd like to see. The majority who 'fought' in it were civilians (the merchant marine etc) and the naval destroyer, corvette and U-boat crews rarely saw each other. Any heroics, which the battle was full of, were generally those of endurance and quiet self-sacrifice rather than Hollywood in your face action. There has been a couple of masterpieces made - The Cruel Sea and Das Boot (the Boat), those are the films IMHO against which everything needs to be judged. If you haven't seen them - do watch them, try to see the full German TV series of Das Boot rather than the film first. (The length of the TV series provides its own more meandering narrative the more compressed film lacks). The black and white film the Cruel Sea is probably dated for a modern audience but the slow, narrow grind of the story with the sea itself presenting much of the day to day action shows the sort of stoicism that was required to escort convoys back then.

As some one who's visited some of the wreckage (see my username) my asdic pinged when I first heard of this Tom Hanks film - but having seen the trailer I don't think Wolfgang Peterson has too much to worry about but we'll see...

 

[Pearple]

Spoiler: Allies win, Nazis loose.

 

[Smearbrick]

I really could go without seeing Tim Cook’s face at the Golden Globes this year. Although, I did love how Ricky Gervais went after him!

 

[DeepIn2U]

The Battle of the Atlantic which lasted pretty much the length of the war should fit the bill admirably for the sort of stories you'd like to see. The majority who 'fought' in it were civilians (the merchant marine etc) and the naval destroyer, corvette and U-boat crews rarely saw each other. Any heroics, which the battle was full of, were generally those of endurance and quiet self-sacrifice rather than Hollywood in your face action. There has been a couple of masterpieces made - The Cruel Sea and Das Boot (the Boat), those are the films IMHO against which everything needs to be judged. If you haven't seen them - do watch them, try to see the full German TV series of Das Boot rather than the film first. (The length of the TV series provides its own more meandering narrative the more compressed film lacks). The black and white film the Cruel Sea is probably dated for a modern audience but the slow, narrow grind of the story with the sea itself presenting much of the day to day action shows the sort of stoicism that was required to escort convoys back then.

As some one who's visited some of the wreckage (see my username) my asdic pinged when I first heard of this Tom Hanks film - but having seen the trailer I don't think Wolfgang Peterson has too much to worry about but we'll see...

thank you very much. For understanding.

I most definitely will check these out.
Cheers.

 

[jjudson]

The Cruel Sea and Das Boot (the Boat), those are the films IMHO against which everything needs to be judged.

I am not a fan of revisiting films to improve CGI (George Lucas comes to mind when he circled back to the first three Star Wars films), but Das Boot is one I wish Wolfgang Peterson would remaster with updated CGI. The internal scenes of the sub are suburb, but the external scenes still have that “toy in a bathtub” look to them. This film would be a great candidate for updated CGI and a re-release. As you said, it really does define the genre.