Yesterday, an article called “Son of Hanks” was published on filmstew.com. <\/p>\n
The author jokes that Colin Hanks would have a new rule. After his turns in Orange County and now King Kong, he would only make movies in which Jack Black is a co-star. <\/p>\n
From FilmStew.com:<\/p>\n
Son of Hanks<\/strong><\/p>\n
Colin Hanks has a new rule. After his turns in Orange County and now King Kong, he\u2019ll only make movies in which Jack Black is a co-star.<\/p>\n
Thursday, December 22, 2005
\nBy Ian Spelling<\/p>\nFor nitpickers, the way Jack Black plays Carl Denham in the new King Kong has far too contemporary a sheen, given that the flick is set in the Depression era days of 1933. His eyebrow raises, his mannerisms, even his sense of story structure and box office panache; it all seems just a little too premature, despite perhaps the once upon a time existence of such Silent Era holdover hucksters. But you\u2019ll certainly hear no complaints from Colin Hanks, who as Denham\u2019s dutiful production assistant Preston, continues a slow, gradual trek up the Hollywood ranks that began with dad\u2019s That Thing You Do and the TV series Roswell. \u201cI actually have a cameo in the Tenacious D movie,\u201d Hanks explains during a recent interview with FilmStew in New York, referring to Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny, which unites him for a third time with Black. It’s based of course on the mock-rock group act Black inhabits with Kyle Gass. \u201c\u201cOn King Kong, I think every one of my scenes was with Jack,\u201d he adds. \u201cI don\u2019t think there was a day where I wasn\u2019t working with him. So we had this great comfort level. I\u2019m not sure if they took it into account that we\u2019d worked together before or not when they cast me. You\u2019d have to ask Peter.\u201d \u201cOrange County was fun. It was great. But this was a profound life experience in which Jack and I sort of looked at each other and said, \u2018All right, brother.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n
For the record, in the 2002 comedy Orange County, Hanks starred as Shaun, a would-be writer desperate to get into Stanford University and Black played Lance, Shaun’s stoner brother. Since then, Hanks has appeared in three movies you\u2019ve probably never heard of \u2013 the overlooked 11:14, Standing Still and Rx – before tackling in Kong, without a doubt his biggest canvas yet. At age 28, Hanks Jr. has not quite had a first film and TV decade like that of Hanks Sr. By this time, in 1984, dad had starred in Bosom Buddies and leaped onto the big screen via Splash and Bachelor Party. Although King Kong has not quite torn up the box office the way some people expected, it can only mean bigger and better things for a guy with the sterling A-list genealogy. \u201cI\u2019ve just finished an independent movie called Alone with Her,\u201d Hanks reveals (it\u2019s directed by Eric Nicholas and co-stars Jordana Spiro and Ana Claudia Talancon). \u201cThe picture is locked and getting fine-tuned; it will be going around to a bunch of the film festivals.\u201d Much like the atmosphere on an independent film, Hanks says King Kong director Peter Jackson and co-writers\/co-producers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens went to great lengths to include everyone in the creative process, as well as expand the roles of the supporting actors following individual script meetings with each performer. Everyone, Hanks notes, was treated as an equal; no one actor carried more clout than anyone else, regardless of his or her place in the credits. <\/p>\n
\u201cPeter, Fran and Philippa are all very aware of the fact that when you\u2019re making these big movies, you want to cast nice people who you can actually work with for nine months or, hell, five years, which is what they did on The Lord of the Rings films,\u201d Hanks muses. \u201cSo, if there\u2019s already a connection there, like Jack and I had, why not use it?\u201d \u201cPete, Fran and Philippa said early on that they were going to very much look at King Kong as an ensemble film, even though the name of the movie is one character,\u201d he continues. \u201cThat\u2019s how they make movies, you know? So we were all very excited to be there.\u201d Of course, Hanks and his fellow cast members often found themselves in the company of the visual effects department folks. Though he still had some workable memories from his time on Roswell, Hanks acknowledges Kong was an entirely different animal, wall-to-wall with New Zealand green screen. \u201cReally, when you\u2019re doing a big special effects movie, there are two kinds of effects,\u201d he explains. \u201cThere\u2019s green screen stuff that\u2019s basically just background, with maybe a green guy or a blue guy. Or, there\u2019s nothing and it\u2019s just you and your imagination. That\u2019s really it.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hard to get your head around,\u201d adds Hanks. \u201cAt first you\u2019re trying to find out, \u2018Well, what does it look like? Is it flying at me? What is it?\u2019 And then, eventually, you just learn to go, \u2018It\u2019s big and it\u2019s scary, and you want to piss your pants and run away.\u2019 Pete had animatics and they were very helpful, but there\u2019s still nothing there in front of you when you\u2019re acting and you just have to do it.\u201d Up next for Hanks is The Great Buck Howard, which starts shooting at the turn of the year. And the big news there is not that he will once again play an assistant, like he does in King Kong. Rather, it\u2019s that his father Tom will reportedly make a cameo as his onscreen character\u2019s dad. \u201cBuck Howard is about this kid, me, who desperately wants a job in show business,\u201d Hanks says. \u201cI get one as an assistant to a B-level magician (Kevin Kline), who is an absolute raving egomaniac. This kid actually wants to be a writer, and this experience makes him think about what he really wants to do with his life.\u201d No such qualms in real life. As perhaps nature pre-ordained it, the son of Tom Hanks is -and always wanted to be – an actor. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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