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The lives of guards on death row are affected by one of their charges. His mothers family, originally surnamed fraga, was entirely portuguese, while his father was of mostly english ancestry. The world as we know it has ended and out of the rubble, the electric city stands as a symbol of peace and security. Tom hanks has his hands in a new and different project from what were used to seeing from him. Electric city the revolt, is the official game based on tom hanks first. Antmans peyton reed enter this campaign for a chance at. The entertainment entity that will bring you tom hanks muchhyped electric city and has brought you ken marino, erica oyama, and paramounts insurge pictures ben stillergueststarring bachelor spoof burning love, katie courics news and interview show, bill mahers special on crazystupidpolitics, and more is now bringing you a set. A view of the future of civilization, presented through the lens of provocative themes such as energy consumption, freedom of information, crime and punishment. The circle trailer 2 2017 emma watson, tom hanks science fiction movie duration. Trailer for tom hanks animated scifi series electric city. Lessons in ruthlessness from frank underwood duration. Tom hanks is bringing an original animated series named electric city to yahoo, reports all things d.
Tom hanks has debuted the first footage from his new animated scifi webseries electric city, which he developed in collaboration with yahoo. Tom hanks singing talking heads in a hologram for the king duration. Every so often a new web series comes out that is heralded as an all new type of interactive experience. Hanks said he had the idea for electric city nearly six years ago, imagining it as a very gripping, almost filmnoir, very serious look at a future that was not a dysfunctional. Trailer for scifi web series electric city starring tom hanks. The show, coproduced by hankss playtone and reliance entertainment, and featuring hankss. Sing a song of six pants 1947 remastered hd 1080p duration. Where theres no firm idea of how many of these episodes seinfeld creates, the longingestation electric city has 20 episodes that are roughly.
Tom hanks, josh feldman, and bo stevenson, all of whom voice characters, began writing electric city in 2003 without intending it as necessarily a web series. Thomas jeffrey hanks born july 9, 1956 is an american actor and filmmaker. It aired for two seasons on abc from november 27, 1980, to march 27, 1982, and in reruns in the summer of 1984 on nbc. Jul 16, 2012 tom hanks talks about the creation of electric city, an animated series that will be shown on yahoo, and which is shaped from his colorful memories of scifi culture past and sometimes dark imagination of events to come. Hanks is known for his comedic and dramatic roles in such films as splash 1984, bachelor. Hanks will voice a character will works for the government, but is. Download tom hanks electric city and enjoy it on your iphone, ipad. Yet under the veneer of order lies a world full of secrets and violence. It was released july 17, 2012 and for now contains 20 short episodes totaling. With tom hanks, michael clarke duncan, david morse, bonnie hunt.
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