![]() ![]() ![]() I found that to be a brilliant mix so I turned into this very pushy machine trying to put the movie together as fast as I could.” It’s very much about now, yet it still it has the sense of a classic novel in that it’s a book for all times. “It was the most contemporary novel I’d read in a very long time so I felt like it couldn’t wait: this story had to be made into a movie. “A Hologram for the King hit a very particular nerve in me,” Tykwer recalls. ![]() German filmmaker Tom Tykwer, who co-directed Hanks in the 2012 sci-fi epic Cloud Atlas, felt just as strongly about the source material. “Then I read A Hologram for the King in one sitting and my only question when I finished it was whether or not he wanted a movie made out of his book.” “I was already a big fan of Dave Eggers’ work, having read a bunch of his stuff including things he did with McSweeney’s literary review,” Hanks says. In Hollywood’s finest black-comedy tradition, A Hologram for the King delivers laughs spiked with bittersweet undertones.Īfter Tom Hanks gave Dave Eggers’ National Book Award-nominated novel A Hologram for the King a rave review on his Twitter feed in 2012, only one issue remained unresolved for the two-time Oscar-winning actor. ![]()
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