Exclusive: Director Miguel Sapochnik on working with Tom Hanks in Apple TV+ sci-fi drama Finch
Coming out this week (Nov. 5) on on Apple TV+ is the post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film Finch, directed by Miguel Sapochnik and starring Two-Time Academy winner Tom Hanks and Caleb Landry Jones.
In “Finch,” a man, a robot and a dog form an unlikely family as Tom Hanks stars in a powerful and moving adventure of one man’s quest to ensure that his beloved canine companion will be cared for after he’s gone. Hanks stars as Finch, a robotics engineer and one of the few survivors of a cataclysmic solar event that has left the world a wasteland. But Finch, who has been living in an underground bunker for decade, has built a world of his own that he shares with his dog, Goodyear. He creates a robot, played by Caleb Landry Jones (“Get Out,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”), to watch over Goodyear when he no longer can. As the trio embarks on a perilous journey into a desolate American West, Finch strives to show his creation, who names himself Jeff, the joy and wonder of what it means to be alive.
Robert Zemeckis and Kevin Misher are producing through their ImageMovers banner.
Sapochnik is best known for his work on the fan-favorite “Game of Thrones” episode “Battle of the Bastards,” which earned him an Emmy for best directing. He had also directed the 2010 sci-fi film “Repo Man”, starring Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, and Alice Braga. He will also serve an executive producer and co-showrunner on the Thrones prequel series, “House of the Dragon.”
BlackFilmandTV.com’s Wilson Morales spoke with Sapochnik on his second feature film and working with Tom Hanks.
