Hanks does WW2, yet again

War History Online has an article about yet another Tom Hanks movie, this one on a destroyer:

Tom Hanks has had an impressive acting career spanning forty years. One of his most memorable roles was in Saving Private Ryan. , where he played a company commander who had to survive the carnage of the D-Day landing at Omaha Beach and then had to lead his men on a mission to save a paratrooper and bring him home. Now it appears that Hanks may be getting yet another World War Two role.
Hanks wrote the screenplay for the new World War Two movie Greyhound, and Aaron Schneider has been brought on to direct. Apparently, Hanks wants the starring role for himself.
Destroyers were fast, streamlined, and powerful vessels. They became a new class of ship, nicknamed “tin cans” and the “greyhounds of the sea”. The destroyer would play an important role on the seas. Destroyers were first built at the end of the nineteenth century and, by the early 1940s, the United States’ newly-commissioned destroyers would be equipped with five-inch dual-purpose guns capable of both surface and anti-aircraft fire. They also sported 20mm and 40mm anti-aircraft guns, quintuple mounts of 21″ torpedoes, and depth charge projectors. The ships displaced 2100 tons and were capable of speeds in excess of 35 knots, hence the nickname Greyhound.
The movie Greyhound is about a career naval officer put in command of a destroyer. The film follows him as he battles, not just the enemy, but also his self-doubt and personal demons. This new film benefits from being set in the Navy, which is seldom the focus of a World War Two movie. The budget is expected to be in the mid-thirty-million-dollar range and, with Hanks in the lead role, this has the makings of another hit for him.
As we all know, besides starring in Saving Private Ryan, Hanks has previous writing credits with an episode of Band of Brothers, as well as being the executive producer of the series with Steven Spielberg.
The Hanks-Spielberg duo is currently working on the new HBO miniseries Masters of the Sky which focusses on the World War Two exploits of the 8th Air Force, known as the “Mighty Eight” which still has an unknown release date.
Here's the teaser for Masters of the Air:

Five miles above the earth, deep behind enemy lines, eleven men inside a Flying Fortress fight for their lives against swarms of enemy German fighters. As the American bombers are picked off one by one, their mission becomes very clear: survive!

Rico says he will, of course, see both of them...