In November 2020, it was introduced that Netflix had acquired worldwide distribution rights, except for the United States and China, and launched it digitally on its streaming service on February 10, 2021. On March 2, 2021, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment officially introduced that the release date for News of the World to physical media, together with Blu-ray Disc, 4k Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc, and DVD, could be March 23, 2021. In the United States, the film was released on HBO/HBO Max on September four, 2021. In May 2017, Fox 2000 Pictures bought distribution rights to an adaptation of the Paulette Jiles novel with Luke Davies writing the screenplay and Tom Hanks set to star. As a result of the Disney/Fox merger, the film was transferred to Universal Pictures.
Among those working on the screenplay was Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the British creator and star of the TV collection Fleabag and author of the primary sequence of Killing Eve. The Bond films are based on a character created by upper-class British writer Ian Fleming in novels printed in the 1950s and Sixties. UK bookmakers are betting on the likes of Tom Hardy, who was within the films The Revenant and Dunkirk, or Rege-Jean …
