"I'm going to put the effort in to make sure that when we switched this knob, it's the right damn knob," Schneider says. For example, even the gain control knob – which controls static on the radar – was period correct when Hanks turned it. But the sea drama was shot on the USS Kidd, a decommissioned WWII-era Fletcher-class destroyer, and a highly accurate interior sound stage set on gimbals to re-create water movement. "Greyhound" relies heavily on CGI scenes depicting the expansive sea battles. The destroyer was legit, as was the big gun "You don't want to be so technically perfect that the audience has no idea what they're seeing, then you've lost them," Laco says. The complicated tactics Krause employs to battle the U-boats and rapid-fire technical interactions on the ship's bridge convey the accuracy, though there were dialogue tweaks to enable viewer comprehension. Forrester was rarely wrong about anything in his books and wrote 'The Good Shepherd' with the help of two senior Naval officers working as his advisers," says marine historian Gordon Laco, who served as one of two "Greyhound" military technical advisers. However, Forester, best known for his "Horatio Hornblower" book series, was fastidious in his quest to detail the 1942 crossing of the perilous five-day "Black Pit" stretch of the Atlantic, where the Navy convoy was too far from land for valuable air support. Krause to the Keeling destroyer are fictional. The fictional source material describes real historical events in the 'Battle of the Atlantic'Įverything from first-time Cmdr. Here's what "Greyhound" gets right (and wrong). ![]() "I wasn't going to be the one that screwed that up." "Tom has history of telling great war stories that also maintain a respectful level of accuracy, which is a way of honoring the service," Schneider says. Forester's 1955 novel "The Good Shepherd." Director Aaron Schneider says it was crucial to continue Hanks' streak of realistic World War II dramas following his starring role in "Saving Private Ryan" (Hanks also wrote and produced "Band of Brothers" and "The Pacific" miniseries.) ![]() "Greyhound" (now streaming on Apple TV+) says onscreen that it's "inspired by actual events," with Hanks adapting the screenplay from C.S. Ernest Krause leads the destroyer USS Keeling (code-named Greyhound), escorting vital troops and supplies to England through an infamously dangerous section of the North Atlantic while battling wolf packs of Nazi U-boats. Tom Hanks enters dangerous seas in his World War II drama "Greyhound." Watch Video: 'Greyhound' movie trailer: Tom Hanks confronts Nazi U-boats
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