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The making of another major motion picture masterpiece, a novel, Tom Hanks

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The making of another major motion picture masterpiece

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Tom Hanks

a novel

"Few know more about how movies are made than Tom Hanks -- not just the technical details but the history drawn upon, and the lives and relationships that must intertwine to create a motion picture. Following up his bestselling collection of short stories, <i>Uncommon Type</i>, Hanks's ambitious novel is about the making of a multimillion-dollar superhero epic. Although the film, <i>Knightshade: The Lathe of Firefall</i>, is being filmed in the present, the story begins in 1947, in the town of Lone Butte, California, where we meet five-year-old Robby and his troubled uncle, Bob Falls, returned from overseas combat in World War II. Then two things happen that will shape the future. Young Robby sees a comic book about a soldier whose weapon is a flamethrower. And his uncle deserts the small boy in a drugstore, riding away from his only family, never to return. The story picks up in 1970. Robby now writes and draws comic books for a stoner underground comic book company in Oakland, California. He receives a moving letter from his long-lost uncle, which sparks him to write and draw a comic about a flame-throwing soldier. Cut to: today. A big-time eccentric director discovers Robby's 1970 comic and decides it's exactly what he needs as a basis for a superhero movie with heart. From that point on we are witness to the making of another motion picture masterpiece with a colorful and memorable cast of characters." --Container

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