Tom Hanks

If you’ve ever hated the movie version of a book, watch this trailer

This trailer for Saving Mr. Banks is priceless — it’s a film about the making of Disney’s Mary Poppins movie, with Tom Hanks inhabiting Walt Disney’s eagerness to make the picture and Emma Thompson as author P.L. Travers, who absolutely does not want her wonderful book besmirched. There are so many lovely moments in this…

Trailers Charlie Jane Anders

First clip from Cloud Atlas shows how the movie will tie six plot lines into one

Behold the first ever (spoiler-filled) clip from Cloud Atlas. This two-minute clip wraps up six different plot lines all into one, and it also shows a very spoilery end to one of the characters, so be warned. Will the Wachowskis be able to pull off this massive balancing act?

Movies Meredith Woerner

Early reviews for Cloud Atlas range from “slog” to “soulful”

Cloud Atlas made its big debut at the Toronto International Film Festival to a rousing chorus of “Hell yes!” and “What the hell was that?” The audience is sharply divided on the adaptation of David Mitchell’s acclaimed novel, directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis. Some people walked out feeling deeply moved, while others couldn’t…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Every Single Preposterous Tom Hanks Face from the Cloud Atlas Trailer

You’ve seen the trailer for Cloud Atlas, but did you spot all the many faces of Tom Hanks? As David Mitchell’s novel jumps from century to century, so do the actors playing various characters throughout time. Especially Tom Hanks. Here is our collection of the many ways Tom Hanks appears in Cloud Atlas. https://gizmodo.com/first-6-minute-trailer-for-cloud-atlas-is-simply-stunni-5929189 Thanks…

io9 Meredith Woerner

First images from Cloud Atlas show off the wild face implants of the future!

Feast your eyes on the very first images from the movie adaptation of David Mitchell’s time jumping novel Cloud Atlas. The movie features a massive cast of big name actors (Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Hugh Grant and more) playing multiple roles throughout time, from the 19th century to the future. Thanks to Entertainment Weekly we…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Rebels threaten a glittering, post-cataclysmic society in Tom Hanks’ animated webseries Electric City

After a disaster causes civilization to collapse, a seemingly idyllic city rises from the ashes, powered by electricity and a strong sense of community. But the Electric City is also carefully controlled by a shadowy matriarchy, which uses propaganda and violence to keep everything moving slowly. Their most powerful weapons in this battle for stability…

io9 Lauren Davis

First Look at Tom Hanks’ Dystopian Future in Electric City

The first footage is out from Tom Hanks’ animated web series, Electric City — set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia, where only the rich can afford communication. Hanks produced, does voice acting, and helped write the script for this 90-minute project, that’s been in the works for years. Hanks told EW that at one point he…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Tom Hanks is building his own totalitarian dystopia in Electric City

Tom Hanks is building, starring, writing, and lending his voice to a new animated scifi series for Yahoo titled Electric City, which is the first ever scripted series for Yahoo. Here’s a plot synopsis, via Yahoo Vice-President Erin McPherson: On the surface, the Electric City is utopia and under the surface, Electric City is secrets…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Tom Hanks producing 6 seasons of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods for HBO

Here’s some good news for those readers upset that the television adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman stalled out. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tom Hanks’ Playtone Productions will produce a whopping six seasons of Neil Gaiman’s earthbound-deities novel American Gods. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-beast-talks-x-men-first-class-plus-stunning-g-5785204 We had heard previously that Hanks was considering adapting Gaiman’s acclaimed book for HBO,…

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Natalie Portman, Halle Berry and Tom Hanks may join the Wachowskis’ Cloud Atlas

Halle Berry just confirmed the Wachowski’s next big project is Cloud Atlas, based on David Mitchell’s acclaimed novel that tells a series of stories from the 19th century to the post-apocalypse. Also possibly attached: Tom Hanks and Natalie Portman. [NataliePortman.com]

Movies Meredith Woerner

Tom Hanks Talks Becoming A Wild Thing, Plus Toy Story 3

We caught up with Wild Things producer Tom Hanks on the carpet last night for the big premiere, to chat about wild rumpusing — and learned that there’s more than one new plaything appearing in the third Toy Story movie. https://gizmodo.com/toy-story-3-gets-a-new-flight-of-the-choncords-play-thi-5380247 Things were a bit chaotic on the carpet last night but we managed to…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Tom Hanks Explains His Antimatter Issues With Star Trek

Our lovable everyman, Tom Hanks, stopped by the Daily Show to talk Angels and Demons and the big antimatter problem, which incidentally isn’t a problem at all. So what’s the deal with Trek then? Oh those crazy scientists with their buttons, dials and knobs. Also did he just negate the threat to his new movie?…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Tom Hanks Wants To Be Your Space Doll

The craze for turning toys into movies may have reached some strange new peak, with the news that Universal plans to turn Major Matt Mason into a movie starring Tom Hanks. Mason, a Mattel toyline that ran from 1966 through to the early ’70s, was based around an astronaut and his crew on a moonbase,…

Movies Graeme McMillan

Large Hadron Collider’s Restart Button To Be Pressed By Tom Hanks

Too good to be true: because his character in Angels and Demons saves the Vatican from being destroyed by antimatter stolen from CERN, Tom Hanks will be flipping the switch to restart the LHC. No word on whether a faux-religious novel’s 500+ pages of pap will have to be deciphered first for the activation codes.…

Physics & Chemistry John Mahoney

Tom Hanks Welcomes You To The City Of Ember

Producer of The City of Ember Tom Hanks gives us all an inside peek into the underground city that was filmed where the Titanic (not James Cameron’s movie, the actual ship) was built. Almost the entire underground world was constructed on this gigantic set, including Ember’s shops, salons and mysterious tunnels.

io9 Meredith Woerner

Fahrenheit 451 Is “The Most Relevant Piece Of Literature Ever Written”

Director Frank Darabont has made a career out of adapting kooky and off-beat novel and short stories, most of them from the hand of Stephen King. He impressively turned the very thin story “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” into a film that holds his own, and now he’s attempting to do the same with Ray…

Movies Kevin Kelly

If you’ve ever hated the movie version of a book, watch this trailer

First clip from Cloud Atlas shows how the movie will tie six plot lines into one

Early reviews for Cloud Atlas range from “slog” to “soulful”

Every Single Preposterous Tom Hanks Face from the Cloud Atlas Trailer

First images from Cloud Atlas show off the wild face implants of the future!

Rebels threaten a glittering, post-cataclysmic society in Tom Hanks’ animated webseries Electric City

First Look at Tom Hanks’ Dystopian Future in Electric City

Tom Hanks is building his own totalitarian dystopia in Electric City

Tom Hanks producing 6 seasons of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods for HBO

Natalie Portman, Halle Berry and Tom Hanks may join the Wachowskis’ Cloud Atlas

Tom Hanks Talks Becoming A Wild Thing, Plus Toy Story 3

Tom Hanks Explains His Antimatter Issues With Star Trek

Tom Hanks Wants To Be Your Space Doll

Large Hadron Collider’s Restart Button To Be Pressed By Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks Welcomes You To The City Of Ember

Fahrenheit 451 Is “The Most Relevant Piece Of Literature Ever Written”

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