News of the World

 is a Westerns drama film directed by Paul Greengrass, written by Paul Greengrass and Luke Davies. It is based on the National Book Award finalist and best-selling novel by Paulette Jiles. The film will be released on Netflix on 10 February, 2021 (except US, Canada and other select territories).

The film was released theatrically by Universal Pictures in the United States on December 25, 2020.

Summary
"A Civil War veteran who travels from town to town reading the news undertakes a perilous journey across Texas to deliver an orphaned girl to a new home."

- Official Netflix synopsis

Five years after the end of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Hanks), a 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.

Cast and Characters

 * Tom Hanks as Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd
 * Helena Zengel as Johanna Leonberger/Cicada
 * Michael Angelo Covino as Almay
 * Ray McKinnon as Christopher John "C.J." Kidd
 * Mare Winningham as Jane
 * Elizabeth Marvel as Ella Gannett
 * Fred Hechinger as John Calley
 * Bill Camp as Willie Branholme
 * Thomas Francis Murphy as Merritt Farley
 * Gabriel Ebert as Benjamin Farley