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Apple has outbid other streaming services to bring the upcoming Tom Hanks film "Finch" to Apple TV .
The Amblin Entertainment sci-fi film, previously titled "Bios," was initially set to release by Universal. It will now likely premiere during awards season, as reported by Deadline.
The story is set in a post-apocalyptic world after a solar event has wiped out much of life as we know it. Finch (Hanks) has been living in an underground bunker for a decade, building a world that he shares with his dog, Goodyear.
Finch builds a robot to look after his dog after he's gone, creating an "unlikely family." The trio then "embarks on a perilous journey into a desolate American West."
"Finch" follows "Greyhound" as the second Tom Hanks-starring film to land on Apple TV+. The latter has been Apple's most-watched film, and it netted an Oscar nomination for Best Sound.
That film starred Hanks as a Navy veteran tasked with protecting a convoy of 37 ships carrying thousands of soldiers and supplies across the Atlantic during World War II.
Miguel Sapochnik, an Emmy winner who helmed the "Battle of the Bastards" episode of "Game of Thrones," is directing "Finch." Craig Luck and Ivor Powell wrote the screenplay.
Kevin Misher, Jack Rapke, Jacqueline Levine, and Powell are producing. Executive producers include Robert Zemeckis, Sapochnik, Luck, Andy Berman, and Adam Merims.
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Seems like ALL sci-fi movies these days are ‘post apocalyptic’ implying there’s no hope for humanity on the Earth. It’s either post nuclear war, post environmental collapse, post cosmic cataclysm, post pandemic, post alien invasion, well you get the picture The theme is the same, most of humanity has been wiped out and those left struggle to survive. Then there’s the obligatory sermon on the mount about all this could have been avoided if not for a few greedy, power mad individuals who started it all. It’s tiresome and boring to watch the same damn movie over and over again. When Avatar came out my astute nephew referred to it as ‘Dances with Wolves in Space’.
Star Trek was the only SciFi series that portrayed a bright future for humankind where war and poverty had been eliminated and people were free to pursue their dreams.
Nice! I am loving Mosquito Coast on Apple TV +, I am about to cancel Disney after that disaster Falcon Winter guy show, oh my lord
Wonder if Hank’s will complain about this film like he did Greyhound due to its limited distribution. Really does suck that theaters are taking the hit due to this damn pandemic. Nothing like the big screen. This probably is the new normal.
“Bios” is a cooler name.