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.

Some 28 years ago, Tom Hanks won an Oscar for Philadelphia, in which he played a gay man seeking justice over being fired for his HIV status. That was then. But in the here-and-now, Hanks told The New York Times Magazine that he could never play that role today, and understands why.

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The upcoming movie Here, from Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, will probably increase that discourse tenfold. The movie will be using the AI-driven tool Metaphysic Live, best known for its deep fakes of Tom Cruise (and also featured on America’s Got Talent).

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The best Tom Hanks movies are enough to get anybody teary-eyed, and one of the best movies of all time certainly had that effect on its leading man.

Tom Hanks started his career with leading roles in several comedy films that gained positive attention, such as Splash (1984), The Money Pit (1986), Big (1988), and A League of Their Own (1992).

Hanks is often at his strongest when working on the best Steven Spielberg movies, and they don’t come much more potent than Saving Private Ryan. Inarguably one of the best war movies ever made, the film opens with the celebrated Omaha Beach sequence – the horrors of conflict writ large with pure cinematic spectacle