The Making of Another Major Motion Picture: A Novel

First edition, first printing. A fine, fresh, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 417 pp. plus additional 8-page color section grahic novel artwork for "Knightshade: The Lathe of Firefall" the ficticious novelization of the equally ficticious "major motion picture" of the plot. Multiple Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks follows up his best-selling collection of short stories, "Uncommon Type", with an abbitiosu novl about the making of a multi-million superhero epic. Though the picture is being made in the present , the story begins in 1947 in the town of Lone Butte, California where we meet five-year-old Robby, already artistically gifted, and his trouble uncle Bob Falls, returned from overseas combat in WWII. Robbt sees a comic book about a soldier whose weapon is a flamethrower as his uncle deserts him at a drugstore, riding away never to return. The story picks up in 1970, Robby now a cfeator of comic books for an underground stoner comic book company in Oakland. Cut ot the present day: a big-time eccentric director discovers Robby's 1970 comic and decides to make it into a blockbuster movie.