Trivia / Greyhound

• Author Appeal: The film is the latest example of Tom Hanks demonstrating his deep interest and knowledge of World War II history on screen.
• Fake American: The most-notable examples are Tom Brittney and and Stephen Graham, both English, playing American naval officers.
• Channel Hop: Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic shutting down most movie theaters, Sony finally decided to sell the exclusive streaming rights for the film to Apple TV+.
• Written by Cast Member: The screenplay was written by Tom Hanks, based upon a novel by C.S. Forester.

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• When the sonar operator identifies the German submarine decoy, he says he heard of something similar happening on the USS Kidd. Which, IRL, is the ship they're all filming on. In the novel, the Keeling was an early 1930s-vintage Mahan-class. The first Fletchers weren't actually commissioned until a few months after the movie's setting of early 1942.