Universal Pictures has released a TV spot and images for the upcoming drama News of the World. Based on Paulette Jiles’ best-selling novel of the same name, the film sees director Paul Greengrass reunite with his Captain Phillips star Tom Hanks, who leads the cast as Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a widower and non-fiction storyteller who, while on his travels, crosses paths with a child (Helena Zengel) and agrees to take her back to the family she was taken from six years earlier; take a look here…
Five years after the end of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Hanks), a widower and 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.
News of the World is currently scheduled for release on Christmas Day in the U.S. and on January 1st 2021 in the UK.
