[News]Tom Hanks' latest hits Netflix today

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Just a week after its premiere in theaters in Spain, and the result of an agreement signed between Netflix and Universal Pictures, the latest film starring Tom Hanks arrives on the platform 'Noticias del gran mundo'.

 

 

On the verge of reaching a hundred titles as a performer, it is the first time we will see the Oscar-winning actor trying his luck in the genre of the 'western', if we except his cowboy voice Woody in the four parts of 'Toy Story'. And he does it from the hand of director Paul Greengrass (all the films in the Bourne saga have been made by him); It is the second time that Greengrass and Hanks have met after 'Captain Philips'.

 

We will have to prepare to hear the title of this film among the nominations of all award seasons, who knows if even at the Oscars. For now it has started well, because almost without being released it already has two nominations for the Golden Globes (Best Supporting Actress in a Film –Helena Zengel– and Best Soundtrack) and another two for the SAG, the Screen Actors Guild Awards (Best Cast of a Movie and Best Supporting Actress, also for Zengel.).

 

According to the official synopsis provided by Netflix, "five years after the end of the American Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Hanks), 63 years old and a veteran of three warlike contests, is dedicated to traveling from town to town to tell true stories, declaiming the news about presidents and queens, glorious fiefdoms, devastating catastrophes and gripping adventures from the most remote corners of the globe.

 

On the plains of Texas, Kidd meets Johanna (Helena Zengel, 'System Crasher'), a 10-year-old girl taken in by the Kiowa tribe six years earlier and raised among them. Johanna, who is hostile to a world she does not know, is going to be returned to her biological uncles against her will.

 

Kidd agrees to take the girl to her place according to the law. During their eventful journey of hundreds of kilometers through cruel and inhospitable territory, the two face the forces of nature and human hostility as they search for a destination that one can call home. "

 

The cast is completed, among others, by Tom Astor, Travis Johnson, Andy Kastelic, Ray McKinnon, Simon Boudlin, Chris Bylsma and Mare Winningham, with whom Tom Hanks coincided more than 30 years ago in the filming of 'Partners and Hounds'.

 

The script for the film has been handled by Paul Greengrass himself together with Luke Davies ('Lion') and takes as its starting point the novel by Paulette Jiles, which was a finalist in 2016 at the National Book Awards in the Fiction category.

 

As the filmmaker himself explains, "Noticias del gran mundo'' is set in 1870, but it is a film about our time. Neighbors, families, and communities got into very violent conflicts with each other, and Americans needed to decide who they were. as Americans. "

 

Especially a candidate in the awards season seems to be Helena Zengel, the German child actress who embodies the role of Johanna, hers first work entirely in the English language. "It's the first movie I've made whose main character is a girl," explains Greengrass, who thought it would be very difficult to find the actress. However, when he saw Zengel's audition, he realized that she "was the only person he really had to look at" and that "it was the easiest decision in the movie."

 

The last curiosity of the article focuses precisely on Helena Zengel, an actress who, according to her, had never heard of who Tom Hanks was until she was cast in the role of 'News from the great world'. She has stated: "I think I saw 'The Da Vinci Code', but I didn't know who he was, it seemed to me that he was just an actor." Little creature.