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GREYHOUND 2---Tom Hanks is returning as the star and writer of the sequel to the Apple TV+ World War II movie based on the CS Forester novel THE GOOD SHEPHERD. The sequel reportedly will follow Captain Ernest Krause and his destroyer crew from D-Day to being transferred to the Pacific Theater. Filming will start in Australia in January, 2026.

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Should be hilarious.

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How can a destroyer beat space battleship Yamato? Kamikaze jet is a must.

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Mikko Saarela

Measure twice, cut once. Measuring once could be quicker...

The only thing the movie got right was the intensity and detail of command. The rest was Hollywood. Book was so much better

At least USS Keeling didn't have unlimited depth charges. I thought that was a good touch.

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That comes from the book. I had a copy of the original run, in it there is a foreword where Forester explains that the scenario is totally false. In the real world the U-Boat held all the advantages, it could withdraw to a different course and at a later time return to an intercept course. Or it could choose to intercept the destroyer from any direction.

The film was completely wrong, and the poster for Greyhound 2 looks to show utter rubbish (a snorkel sub on the surface ? !!! )

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U-boat did not hold all the advantages quite a number sunk by Allied forces. Not easy to replace U-Boats and trained crew as it was to replace sunk cargo. For each U-Boat tactic employed the Allies developed a counter tactic via technology or numbers until U-boats were driven to mid-and South Atlantic. The movie depicts an early war convoy with less than sufficient escort which falls prey to a wolf pack. Hollywood took it from there. The book centers on the Captain, the stress of command. The action in the book is to high-lite the stress and burden of command. The theme runs through the Hornblower series as well. Decision after calculated decision. The movie was meant to be entertaining which it was but not accurate. The only accurate movie I thought was Das Boot but even in that movie the makers had to interject their thoughts of what was senselessness in war and not the motivation to survive and fight back.

Pedants may cringe and whinge, but Greyhound is not a documentary, no more than Gladiator is intended as an accurate portrayal of Ancient Rome.