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Greyhound is a 2020 war film directed by Aaron Schneider and starring Tom Hanks, who also serves as screenwriter. The film is based on the 1955 novel The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester. It also stars Stephen Graham, Rob Morgan, and Elisabeth Shue. The film follows a US Navy Commander on his first war-time assignment in command of a multi-national escort group in defending a convoy of merchant ships under attack by submarines in early 1942 during the Battle of the Atlantic, only months after the U.S. officially entered World War II.

A portion of principal photography for the film was filmed aboard the USS Kidd, a World War II-era Fletcher-class destroyer museum ship in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Kidd is an important local monument and tourist attraction.

The film was scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on June 12, 2020, by Sony Pictures Releasing, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The distribution rights were then sold to Apple TV+, which will release the film digitally on July 10, 2020.