According to hollywoodreporter.com, Tom Hanks is releasing his second work of fiction in May of 2023. Tom Hanks will release his second work of fiction in May 2023 — and this one is partially set in the entertainment world. The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece will follow “the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film … and the humble comic books that inspired it,” according to Penguin Random House. The publisher also stated that the novel will touch on changes that have happened in America and American culture since World War II.
The book will take place over several decades beginning in 1947, when a soldier returns from war and meets his nephew before disappearing for 23 years. After later reconnecting, the nephew decides to draw an underground comic of his uncle as a World War II hero. Moving forward to present day, a director discovers the comic book and makes it into a superhero film.
Hanks’ novel is also going to include three comic books that he created, including the one that later becomes the “major motion picture masterpiece.” Hanks took to social media in order to promote his Novel captioning a picture of the cover captioned, “The results of one smoking hot typewriter. Hanx.” The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece is set to be on shelves on May 9th, 2023.
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