It’s been a weird year for Tom Hanks. Does anyone remember him starring in that film adaptation of Dave Eggers’ A Hologram for the King? Didn’t think so. By a show of hands, how many of you actually went out and saw Clint Eastwood’s Sully? Exactly.
Fortunately, he’s back in the saddle with an exciting new feature: James Ponsoldt’s highly anticipated follow-up to his 2014 David Foster Wallace biopic-of-sorts, The End of the Tour. It’s titled The Circle and it’s, yes, another adaptation of Eggers’ work.
This time, it’s a thriller about living in the digital age of online privacy (or the lack thereof) and that finds Hanks playing the founder of a Facebook-esque social network alongside one of his aspiring co-workers played by Emma Watson.
Here’s the official synopsis:
“Hanks plays the founder of the world’s largest tech and social media company. He encourages Watson’s character, who’s rising through the company ranks, to live her life with complete transparency — but no one is really safe when everyone is watching. The novel turns into a contemporary thriller about the perils of life in a digital age where personal data is collected, sifted and monetized and used for surveillance, rendering privacy obsolete.”
Check out the trailer above and catch the film on April 28th, 2017.
