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The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece A novel

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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER ? AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ? From the legendary actor and best-selling author: 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.«Wild, ambitious and exceptionally enjoyable.» ?Matt Haig, best-selling author The Midnight Library, The Humans and Reasons to Stay Alive 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 day: A commercially successful director discovers the 1970 comic book and decides to turn it into a contemporary superhero movie.Cue the cast: 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.Bonus material: Interspersed throughout are three comic books that are featured in the story?all created by Tom Hanks himself?including the comic book that becomes the official tie-in to this novel?s «major motion picture masterpiece.»

  • Autor/es Hanks, Tom
  • ISBN13 9780525565178
  • ISBN10 0525565175
  • Páginas 448
  • Año de Edición 2024