The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece: Tom Hanks
Hanks, Tom
ISBN 10: 1804940933 ISBN 13: 9781804940938
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From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II.
PART ONE of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression and then disappears for twenty-three years.
Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing underground comic books in Oakland, California, reconnects with his uncle and, remembering the comic book he saw when he was five, draws a new version with his uncle as a World War II fighting hero.
Cut to the present A commercially successful director discovers the 1970 comic book and decides to turn it into a contemporary superhero movie.
Cue the We meet the film’s extremely difficult male star, his wonderful leading lady, the eccentric writer/director, the producer, the gofer production assistant and everyone else on both sides of the camera.
Funny, touching and wonderfully thought-provoking, this is a novel not only about the making of a movie, but also about the changes in America and American culture since World War II. Bonus interspersed throughout are the three comic books that are featured in the story—all created by Hanks himself—including the comic book that becomes the official tie-in to this novel’s "major motion picture masterpiece."
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Title: The Making of Another Major Motion Picture ...
Publisher: Penguin
Publication Date: 2024
Binding: Soft cover
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