Earlier this month, the first trailer for "A Hologram For The King" arrived, and it was saddled with the kind of goofy voice-over we don’t associate with the films of Tom Hanks these days. However, a new U.K. trailer has landed for Tom Tykwer‘s picture which corrects that approach, while serving up some fresh footage along with way.
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Based on the novel by Dave Eggers, and also featuring Alexander Black, Sarita Choudhury, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Ben Whishaw and Tom Skerritt, the fish-out-of-water story follows a businessman whose job is on the line, as he has to make a lucrative deal in Saudi Arabia. Here’s the synopsis:
In Tom Tykwer’s wryly comic adaptation of Dave Eggers’ novel, Tom Hanks stars as a struggling American businessman who travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.
"A Hologram For The King" opens on April 22nd and will screen at the Tribeca Film Festival. Watch below.