Trailer For Tom Hanks & Paul Greengrass’ New Netflix Western NEWS OF THE WORLD

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Niall Browne in News

Here’s the trailer for News Of The World, the new western from Tom Hanks and Paul Greengrass. The film hits Netflix in the UK on 10 February 2021.

Movies In Focus was hugely impressed by Hanks and Greengrass’ 2013 film Captain Phillips and I’m hoping this is as good as that dramatic-thriller. News Of The World opened in US cinemas on 25 December 2020 and it has grossed $10 million – a healthy number in these COVID-19 times.

The synopsis:

Netflix and Universal Pictures are proud to present Tom Hanks starring in News of the World, a moving story written and directed by Paul Greengrass, reuniting for the first time with his star from their 2013 Best Picture Captain Phillips.

Five years after the end of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Hanks), a veteran of three wars, now moves from town to town as a non-fiction storyteller, sharing the news of presidents and queens, glorious feuds, devastating catastrophes, and gripping adventures from the far reaches of the globe.

In the plains of Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna (Helena Zengel, System Crasher), a 10-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier and raised as one of their own. Johanna, hostile to a world she’s never experienced, is being returned to her biological aunt and uncle against her will.

Kidd agrees to deliver the child where the law says she belongs. As they travel hundreds of miles into the unforgiving wilderness, the two will face tremendous challenges of both human and natural forces as they search for a place that either can call home.

The trailer: