![]() ![]() Tykwer had also just worked with Hanks on Cloud Atlas, the insanely ambitious 2012 film he'd made with Lana and Andy (now Lilly) Wachowski. Tykwer ( Run Lola Run, Perfume, The International) was already a friend of Eggers's Tykwer's wife runs an NGO that operates in East Africa, where Eggers's earlier novel, What Is the What? is set, and he and Eggers had been working on a miniseries project based on that story. Zahra Hakim ( Homeland's Sarita Choudhury). ![]() This disorienting undertaking (think Bill Murray in Lost in Translation) spins Clay into alienated, alcohol-fueled fugue states in his hotel room, where he nurses a morbid obsession with a growing lump on his back, and then surrenders to the tender if deeply unfamiliar mercies of the Saudi health system, in the person of Dr. In it, American corporate warrior Alan Clay (Tom Hanks), facing postdivorce blues and battling career reversals, is sent to Saudi Arabia to sell some fancy communications technology. German director Tom Tykwer's new film, A Hologram for the King, based on Dave Eggers's 2012 novel, is a charming, unconventional…well, he calls it a romantic comedy, but that's something of a rough fit. This article originally appears in the May 2016 issue of ELLE. ![]()
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