
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
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Tom Hanks
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
A wildly ambitious story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film, and the humble comic book that inspired it all.
Spanning 80 years of a changing America and culminating in the opening of the film, we meet a colourful cast of characters including a troubled soldier returning from war, a young boy with an artistic gift, an inspired and eccentric director, a pompous film star on the rise, a tireless production assistant and countless film crew members that together create Hollywood magic.
Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece offers an insider's take on the momentous efforts it takes to make a film. At once a reflection on America's past and present, on the world of show business and the real world we all live in.
This audiobook features 15 narrators, including Rita Wilson, other character backstories performed by Peter Gerety (Charlie Wilson's War, The Wire), Natalie Morales (Dead to Me, Language Lessons), Ego Nwodim (Saturday Night Live), Nasim Pedrad (Chad, Saturday Night Live), Connor Ratliff (Dead Eyes, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and Holland Taylor (The Practice, The Morning Show). Additional parts are performed by Frankie Corzo, Hillary Huber, David Lee Huynh, Sean Patrick Hopkins, JD Jackson, January LaVoy, and Oliver Wyman.
Interspersed throughout the book are three comic books featured in the story. This audiobook contains downloadable PDF of the comics from the book and a QR code for access to the original screenplay of Knightshade: The Lathe of Firefall.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2023 Tom Hanks (P)2023 Penguin AudioCritic reviews
Great story, shame about some narration
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Brilliantly engrossing peek behind the curtain
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A Moving Motion Picture Masterpiece
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Early on I struggled to connect the strands but it kept pushing on and made me realise I'll never write that well.
Like the title, this book is magnificent
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An unexpectedly brilliant listen
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Brilliant
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It all comes together with such dramatic heft, you know it was all justified.
And it's enormous cast of characters is utterly necessary to sing to you the song of how a movie is made: the massive army of people all crucial to its success. Yes, you too, caterers! And fixers and doers!
I've been waiting for this novel forever. I ate up William Goldman's movie making books - his novels are nothing. Mr Hanks' novel is something; it really is something.
Complex, rewarding mass of lyrical nuance
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Hollywood here I come
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something different
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The Making of a Major Audio Materpiece
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