Apple Picks Up Tom Hanks Sci-Fi Film ‘Finch’ From Amblin

Apple Studios has acquired one other Tom Hanks film after the success of “Greyhound,” this time the science-fiction movie “Finch” from Amblin Entertainment.

“Finch,” previously titled “Bios,” was meant to be launched theatrically by Universal for this August, however Apple has now picked it up and can launch the movie on Apple TV+ later this yr.

In “Finch,” a person, a robotic and a canine type an unlikely household, with Tom Hanks starring as a robotics engineer who has survived a cataclysmic photo voltaic occasion and world apocalypse inside an underground bunker and is now on a quest to make sure that his canine will likely be cared for after he’s gone. He creates a robotic named Jeff (voiced by Caleb Landry Jones) to look at over his canine when he now not can, and the three collectively embark on a journey throughout the American West to indicate Jeff the fun of being alive.

Miguel Sapochnik, a director on “Game of Thrones,” is directing “Finch” from an authentic screenplay by Craig Luck, making his feature-film writing debut, and Ivor Powell.

“Finch” is produced by Kevin Misher Jacqueline Levine, and Ivor Powell, and Walden Media can be a producer on the mission. The govt producers are Robert Zemeckis, Craig Luck, Miguel Sapochnik, Andy Berman, Adam Merims, Frank Smith and Naia Cucukov.

Apple had picked up “Greyhound” this previous summer season, a World War II movie that Hanks wrote and was meant to be launched theatrically by Sony. The movie grew to become probably the most considered title on Apple TV+ and scored an Oscar nomination for Best Sound.

Deadline first reported the information.