The release date for the English version of 'The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece' by
Tom Hanks is May 2023. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
From the best-selling author and Academy Award winner comes a book about the creation of a multimillion-dollar, star-studded superhero action movie and the inconspicuous comic books that served as its inspiration. Funny, heartwarming, and very thought-provoking, it also captures how America and American society have changed since World War II.
This story's first part is set in 1947. After seeing his gifted five-year-old nephew, a troubled soldier returning from the war makes a lasting effect before going missing for twenty-three years.
In 1970, the nephew, who is now creating underground comic books in Oakland, California, reunites with his uncle and creates a new comic book featuring him as a World War II combatant, recalling the comic book he first read when he was five years old.
Time travel to the present day, when a financially successful filmmaker chooses to adapt the 1970 comic book into a modern superhero film after discovering it.
The film's very challenging male protagonist, his amazing leading woman, the quirky writer/director, the producer, the gofer production assistant, and every other person on both sides of the camera are introduced to us.
Bonus material: Three comic books that are included in the plot and were all drawn by Tom Hanks himself are scattered throughout. One of the comic books serves as the official tie-in to the novel's critically acclaimed big motion picture adaptation.