EXCLUSIVE: Apple Original Films won a very competitive weekend auction among streamers to land the Tom Hanks-starrer Finch, an Amblin Entertainment sci-fi film that previously carried the title Bios and was originally intended to be released by Universal.
It will now be released on Apple TV+ later this year, likely in awards season, with a qualifying theatrical run at least in the cards.The film is directed by Miguel Sapochnik, who helmed some of the most ambitious episodes of Game of Thrones, including Battle of the Bastards episode in Season Six which won him the first of his two Emmys for the show.
Script is by first time screenwriter Craig Luck and Ivor Powell, latter of whom was associate producer of Blade Runner and Alien.
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