17/06/2013 - Academy Award winner Tom Hanks will star in the title role and also co-produce

After his star-driven big-budget movie Cloud Atlas [+see also:
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The story of A Hologram for the King focuses on a struggling businessman in a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, who pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. Tom Tykwer also wrote the script.

Academy-award winner Tom Hanks, who can be seen in the upcoming film Saving Mr. Banks, will play the title role and also came on board as a producer of the film. The producers from Berlin-based X Filme Creative Pool are Stefan Arndt (Cloud Atlas, Amour [+see also:
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The distribution in Germany will be handled by X Verleih.