Saban Films and Roadside Attractions releases it today.ĭo you plan to see A Hologram For The King? Let us know what you think. King will be directed by Hanks’ Cloud Atlas. Hanks’ own shingle, Playtone, is among the production companies involved. Tom Hanks will reportedly star in and produce the film adaptation of Dave Eggers ’ National Book Award finalist A Hologram for the King. This book by McSweeney’s founder Eggers ( Zeitoun, 2009, etc.) inverts the premise of his fiction debut, 2002’s You Shall Know Our Velocity. Stefan Arndt, Gary Goetzman, Tim O’Hair, Arcadiy Golubovich and Uwe Schott produced. A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING by Dave Eggers RELEASE DATE: JA middle-aged man scrapes for his identity in a Saudi Arabian city of the future. The opening fantasy sequence where Hanks finds himself singing Talking Head’s “Once In A Lifetime” is in itself worth the price of admission, but it is a red herring for what is to follow. Alan Clay is not quite Willy Loman, but they do share the fact that life seems to be rushing them by.Īlthough the film falls short of greatness, there is much that is worthwhile and it is miles ahead of the last Hanks-Tykwer collaboration, the miserable and incoherent Cloud Atlas. Between waiting for the King to show up and the nagging realities of his own life, Hanks has a lot to work with, and you wouldn’t be wrong to see elements of Death Of A Salesman here. Basically A Hologram For The King is a nice indie-style character study of a man whose life and work merges to find him literally adrift in the desert questioning where he is going.

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