While most big Oscar season hopefuls have fled from theaters entirely for 2020, Universal Pictures continues to double-down on its commitment to a Christmas Day release for News of the World, the new Western that reunites the Captain Phillips actor / director collaboration of Tom Hanks and Paul Greengrass.
This latest promo is the studio’s first featurette for the post-Civil War story.
In it, Hanks discusses the role of Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd — a traveling news reporter and widower who rescues an abandoned white girl that only speaks a Native American language — and the story’s themes.
The child is played by German newcomer Helena Zengel, who looks potentially Oscar-worthy in her own right next to the two-time Academy Award winner.
Barring a pandemic-forced about-face, News of the World opens exclusively in theaters on December 25, 2020.
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Tom Hanks talks about his role in NEWS OF THE WORLD (2020), co-written and directed by Paul Greengrass.
Tom Hanks plays Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd in the Paul Greengrass Western NEWS OF THE WORLD (2020)
Tom Hanks plays Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd in the Paul Greengrass Western NEWS OF THE WORLD (2020)
Tom Hanks plays Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd in the Paul Greengrass Western NEWS OF THE WORLD (2020)
(from left) Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Tom Hanks) and Johanna Leonberger (Helena Zengel) in NEWS OF THE WORLD (2020), co-written and directed by Paul Greengrass.
Helena Zengel co-stars as Johanna Leonberger in NEWS OF THE WORLD (2020), co-written and directed by Paul Greengrass.
Tom Hanks plays Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd in the Paul Greengrass Western NEWS OF THE WORLD (2020)
(from left) Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Tom Hanks) and Johanna Leonberger (Helena Zengel) in NEWS OF THE WORLD (2020), co-written and directed by Paul Greengrass.
