The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

Hanks’s first novel follows a comic-book-turned-blockbuster from a scribbled idea to the chaos of a film set, told through memos, comic panels and the tangled lives of the people who make movies. Drawing on four decades in the business, he layers a 1940s wartime story beneath the modern production, letting the two eras rhyme. It is an affectionate insider’s love letter to filmmaking, crowded with the producers, stars and crew whose collective effort somehow becomes a picture.