Greyhound is based on the 1955 novel The Good Shepherd by CS Forester and is about a US Navy Commander (Hanks) on his first war mission during World War II’s Battle of the Atlantic, the longest military campaign of the war that lasted from 1939 to 1945.The trailer is mostly about the Nazi U-boats rising from the water to rain fire on the US ships with Hanks’ character grimly looking on, clearly helpless to do anything.
The synopsis says Hanks’ character, Ernest Krause, is given the command of a destroyer in World War II. He and his ship are relentlessly pursued by the U-boats. Krause apparently has personal demons and he also struggles to overcome his self-doubts.Greyhound releases on June 12.