EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures this week began showing to taste makers News Of The World, the Paul Greengrass-directed 1870s-set adaptation of Paulette Jiles’ novel about broken down war veteran Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd — Tom Hanks — who crosses Texas towns and reads breathtaking newspaper stories to life the spirits of local townsfolk.
He stumbles across a 10-year old (Helena Zengel), orphaned after the killings of the Kiowa tribe members who took her in, after they killed her family years earlier.
The vet reluctantly agrees to escort the traumatized child to the only living relatives in Texas willing to take her in. They brave harrowing danger along the way and a bond grows.
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