A Hologram for the King
How far will you go? To find yourself.
Country
Production
Budget
$30 000 000
Box office
$9 169 507
Director
Actors
Tom Hanks, Sarita Choudhury, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Ben Whishaw, Tom Skerritt, Tracey Fairaway, David Menkin, Omar Elba, Jane Perry, Amira El Sayed
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Stefan Arndt, Gary Goetzman, Uwe Schott, Arcadiy Golubovich, Tim O'Hair, Gaston Pavlovich, Steven Shareshian, Claudia Bluemhuber, Irene Gall, Gero Bauknecht
Camera operator
Frank Griebe
Composer
Artist
Uli Hanisch, Benjamin Swiczinsky, Johannes Schiehsl
Audition
Avy Kaufman, Michelle Guish, Gaby Kester
Editing
Alexander Berner
Whole Team (72)
Whole Team (72)
Short description
Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.
What's left behind the scenes
- The German premiere took place at the famous Zoo Palast complex on Hardenbergstrasse in Berlin.
- While hunting wolves, Alan is asked if he would have wanted to be a soldier in the US Army during World War II. “Yes,” Alan replies, “but not in the Pacific.” This is a reference to Tom Hanks’ work in 'Saving Private Ryan' (Steven Spielberg, 1998), as well as in the series 'Band of Brothers' (2001) and 'The Pacific' (2010), where he did not act but served as an executive producer. Both miniseries were created for HBO. In 'The Pacific,' a taxi driver tells a soldier just returned from combat in Japan: “I fought myself, but I was in Europe. You guys had it much harder in the Pacific!”
- Ben Whishaw, who played Dave in 'A Hologram for the King' (2016), also worked with Tom Hanks and Tom Tykwer on 'Cloud Atlas' (2012).
- The film is based on a novel by Dave Eggers, which Tom Hanks read and praised highly on Twitter in 2012. The actor had previously been a devoted fan of Eggers.
- Only a few individual buildings were filmed in Riyadh. The majority of the filming did not take place in Saudi Arabia, but in Morocco.
- In the role of Adam Clay, a businessman down on his luck, actor Tom Hanks depicts the filming of a music video for the Talking Heads song 'Once In a Lifetime'.
- This is the second joint project of Tom Hanks and Tom Tykwer. The first was the historical science fiction film 'Cloud Atlas' (2012).
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