Tom Hanks has written a novel. The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, the full-length follow-up to 2017’s short story collection Uncommon Type, will be published next May. The novel apparently spans 80 years, and concerns a comic book that is eventually adapted into a movie. To accompany the announcement, Hanks released a brief statement, and it is quite profoundly Hanksy.
Not only does Hanks use the statement as proof that he knows his literary beans – at one point he literally quotes Hamlet – but he also pulls off the mother of all aw-shucks America’s Dad moves. “I’ve made a ton of movies (and four of them are pretty good, I think),” he writes, in what is almost definitely a demonstration of his famed everyman understatement. Unfortunately, however, it also shows that Tom Hanks isn’t very good at the internet.
