"Greyhound" WWII Movie with Tom Hanks

General Discussion FSM Ready Room
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I haven’t seen much concerning this movie, but thought some of the “ship” people might have been following it.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/greyhound-trailer-tom-hanks-leads-fight-nazi-u-boats-1282738

Apparently based upon C.S. Forester’s novel “The Good Shepherd”, it’s the story of a destroyer captain on convoy duty in the north Atlantic. Tom Hanks stars as the Captain.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pNgAZVrf40

The Ship Guys will have to comment on the accuracy of the ships. [:D]

Gary

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I’ve been waiting for this. I HAS to be better than Pearl Harbor. Hanks has been involved since the beginning. It is indeed based on CS Forester’s “Good Shepherd”. Hanks is a first-time convoy commander engaging German wolfpack submarines

A lot of it was filmed onboard the USS KIDD in Baton Rouge. So you won’t see a lot of CGI ships, at least not for the main players.

Some of the nitpickers on another site have griped about a square-bridge Fletcher in the Atlantic in 1942. Come on - it that all you got! (At least they didn’t CGI a different class/round-bridge Fletcher and have the exterior shots of a KIDD square-bridge. Continuity!)

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Ill be wanting to see this one. The preview looks pretty good.

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Can’t tell…is it a prequel to Captain Philips?

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Great! Looking forward to this one.

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A CS Forester novel, and Tom Hanks-that’s a formula for a good movie! I don’t see many movies in the theaters anymore, but I will make a point of seeing this on the big screen.

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Hmmm, not sure what to think yet.

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“Plan 9 From Outer Space” was better than “Pearl Harbor”.

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Thanks for the heads-up. The trailer looks good, and anything with Elizabeth Shue and well, you can count me in!

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Should be interesting. The book was not about action as much as it was about the hours upon hours of merciless repetitition of staying on station and protecting the convoy, with the constant fear of dozing off and missing a clue of an impending attack. So it should be a good movie and could complement a night watching with Das Boat.

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Hi;

Well, based on the little previews it looks like they got a “Square Bridge” right. Maybe. We’ll see. Now there’s a movie I’ll have to see! Remember a lot does look right, as I did Spend time on a Gearing in WesPac early in my Military career.

They surely got the ship’s movement through the water right! I was told by an old chief that the " Gearing" was an enlarged improved model over the Fletchers as All Gun Destroyers.

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There is that.

I thought the same thing. Even so with the " Hanks" maybe I caan overlook the Artistic license of using The Kidd. Does anyone know of a round bridge Fletcher in existence Anywhere?

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The story sounds a little similar to “The Cruel Sea”. That was a good novel, too.

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I would say watch both one after the other…

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Yeah, waiting for it’s release. Looks good.

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Tanker-builder said

" I thought the same thing. Even so with the " Hanks" maybe I caan overlook the Artistic license of using The Kidd. Does anyone know of a round bridge Fletcher in existence Anywhere?"

Yes. No there isn’t.

Which is kind of silly as the ship in the book was a Mahan class DD.

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I sure hope this one is better than the touted “Dunkirk” talk about boring!

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“I’m the Captain now.”

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I suspect that this will be a good companion piece for “Das Boot”.

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Hey “G” :

Yer Right! the ship in the book was a"Mahan" Class. Got one in my fleet too!