TOM HANKS-NOVELA – TELAM Agency
After having surprised readers in 2018 with the storybook “Singular Types”, the actor Tom Hanks, star of films such as “Philadelphia” or “Forrest Gump”, publishes his first novel, “Another great work of the master of cinema” , in which he tells the behind the scenes of the start-up of a blockbuster with big screen stars inspired by a superhero comic.
Published in Spain by Roca Editorial, the novel -which also includes drawings that the author made especially for the edition- is an inside look at the world of cinema, although it is also encouraged to address the most recent history of the United States, a walk for the unreality of the world of filming but also for the most concrete of the American identity.
The story begins in 1947, when a troubled soldier returns from the war and meets his five-year-old nephew, a boy with great talent as a cartoonist who manages to impress him.
Later, the text picks up in 1970, when uncle and nephew meet again after more than two decades without seeing each other and that boy has become a brilliant clandestine cartoonist in Oakland, California.
The reunion makes the nephew redraw that comic with which, at the age of five, he tried to impress adults, but this time, with his uncle as the protagonist and turned into a hero fighting during the Second World War.
A successful film director also appears on the pages of the novel who accidentally discovers that comic from the 70s and decides to turn it into a superhero blockbuster.
During an interview with People magazine, the 67-year-old actor said that the novel is based on his personal experiences in Hollywood and that with it he also seeks to share the “important lessons” he learned along the way or the “tricks” he He did to get out in difficult moments.
“No one knows how a movie is made, although everyone thinks they do. I’ve made a lot of movies (and four of them are pretty good, I think) and it still amazes me how everything is created, from an idea to the image on the screen, The whole process is a miracle”, he maintained, aware that this has a certain literary interest for a novelist.
Source: Ambito
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