Universal has released the official trailer for director Paul Greengrass' period dramaNews of the World starring Tom Hanks. The screenplay, written by Greengrass (the Bourne films, United 93) and Luke Davies (Lion), is based on the National Book Award finalist and best-selling novel of the same name by Paulette Jiles.
Set five years after the end of the Civil War, the film follows Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Hanks, who previously starred in Greengrass' Captain Phillips), a veteran of three wars, who now moves from town to town as a non-fiction storyteller.In Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna (Helena Zengel,System Crasher), a 10-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier and raised as one of their own.
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