EXCLUSIVE: When Oscar-nominated director Paul Greengrass began working on News of the World, he said he set out to create a family movie with purpose and edge.
However, he didn’t expect the film’s touching on pandemics and a politically divided country to strike such a chord with current events.“It was sort of eerie and uncanny,” Greengrass told Deadline. “All you can do is embrace that.”Based on Paulette Jiles’ 2016 novel, Universal’s News of the World follows beaten-down Confederate soldier Capt.
Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Tom Hanks) as he seeks to promote unity and positivity after the the Civil War. He travels from one Texas town to another reading newspaper stories to residents looking for light amid the country’s post-war divide.However,
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