Universal Pictures is proud to present Tom Hanks starring in News of the World on 1st January, 2021, a moving story written and directed by Paul Greengrass, and has today launched a new featurette with Tom Hanks taking audiences behind the scenes - click the link above to view it.
Hanks said: "Kidd goes through something that saves him as much as he saves Johanna. She gave him a true purpose. His real message is 'when you have love in your life, it will be alright'. That's what all great stories are; it's just pure love for another human being".
Five years after the end of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd (Hanks), a veteran of three wars, now moves from town to town as a non-fiction storyteller, sharing the news of presidents and queens, glorious feuds, devastating catastrophes, and gripping adventures from the far reaches of the globe.
In the plains of 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. Johanna, hostile to a world she's never experienced, is being returned to her biological aunt and uncle against her will.
Kidd agrees to deliver the child where the law says she belongs. As they travel hundreds of miles into the unforgiving wilderness, the two will face tremendous challenges of both human and natural forces as they search for a place that either can call home.
