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Author Hanks, Tom, author.

Title The making of another major motion picture masterpiece [large print] / Tom Hanks ; comic book illustrations by R. Sikoryak.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf Large Print, [2023]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Large Print  LP F Hanks    New Books Pittsburg 2ndFL  Available
Edition First large print edition
Description 670 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Physical Medium large print rdafs
Contents Back story -- Source material -- Development hell -- Prep -- Casting -- The shoot -- Post.
Summary "From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: his debut novel. The story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic book that inspired it. 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 23 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 go-fer 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 material: 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.""-- Provided by publisher.
Chronological Term Since 1945
Subject Superhero films -- Fiction.
Comic books, strips, etc. -- Fiction.
Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- United States -- Fiction.
Actors -- Fiction.
Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
Comic books, strips, etc. (OCoLC)fst00869145
Motion pictures -- Production and direction. (OCoLC)fst01027357
Superhero films. (OCoLC)fst01138887
United States -- Civilization -- 1945- -- Fiction.
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Novels.
Large print books.
Historical fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Added Author Sikoryak, R., illustrator.
ISBN 9780593664001 $35.00
0593664000 $35.00

 
    
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