The actor’s tale about the creation of a fantasy film captures the humdrum of Hollywood but lacks his on-screen ability to breathe life into characters
observes in this ambitious addition to the genre: “making movies is complicated, maddening, highly technical at times”. Reading it is to be reminded that Hanks, one of the greatest of all movie stars, must have had a good deal of time on his hands during lockdown.
that came out in 2017. On that occasion his publisher ventured that “the two-time Oscar winner is as talented a writer as he is an actor”. His screen agent might have had something to say.
His story begins with a call to a freelance writer and film buff, Joe Shaw, from a renowned Hollywood film-maker, Bill Johnson, which ends in the former being co-opted to tell the full tale of the latter’s latest movie, a big-budget fantasy calledThat tale starts, of course, with backstory, that real-life prequel to any two-hour cinema experience.
There sounds in this a leading-man’s-acceptance-speech-acknowledgment that there is no “I” in the teamwork of Hollywood. Still, as drama, the book mostly gathers pace when starrier egos eventually land on set. Hanks has particular fun with Johnson’s male lead, OK Bailey, who introduces himself to his co-star with a text message reading: “Let’s not ***k till we’re done.
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