'Do your part': WWII film 'Greyhound' teaches virus lesson, says Tom Hanks

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'Do your part': WWII film 'Greyhound' teaches virus lesson, says Tom Hanks
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'COVID-19, no one knows how long it's going to go on, no one knows who's going to die because of it... you don't have to go very far to see the correlations and the similarities to the war years.'

Contrasting today's simple instructions to socially distance, wash hands and wear a mask with World War II sailors pulling together as torpedoes tore through the icy waters and slammed into ships' hulls, Hanks sounds indignant.

For extra authenticity, some interior scenes were shot on the original ship – which survived a 1945 kamikaze attack – at a Louisiana museum."It feels like we've just placed you on a destroyer and let you loose," said Schneider. Producers decided delaying was not worthwhile, with dozens of other blockbusters already vying for theater slots in winter and 2021, so Sony sold the movie as an Apple TV+ streaming exclusive."But with that removed – I mean literally removed as a possibility – we were left with this as a reality. We have a movie that is ready to go, that is timely because of COVID-19," he added.

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