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The making of another major motion picture masterpiece : a novel
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 sound file (16 hr., 08 min., 45 sec.))
remote - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Books on Tape, 2023.
Content descriptions
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Natalie Morales, Full Cast, Holland Taylor, Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Peter Gerety, Ego Nwodim, Nasim Pedrad and Connor Ratliff. |
| Summary, etc.: | 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 AlivePart 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."*Includes a downloadable PDF of the comics from the book and a QR code for access to the original screenplay of Knightshade: The Lathe of Firefall |
| Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed May 10, 2023). |
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| Subject: | United States Civilization 1945- Fiction Actors Fiction Motion pictures Production and direction United States Fiction Comic books, strips, etc Fiction Superhero films Fiction |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. |
