Tom Hanks has hit a low – where does he go from Here?

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. At the turn of the century, Hanks was placed third in The Hollywood Reporter’s list of most bankable stars – after Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson, but before Leonardo DiCaprio, Harrison Ford, and Jim Carrey. Plan auto-renews until cancelled Try for free That said, he isn’t totally to blame – the bankable movie star, such as Hanks once was, is a dying breed that one might argue consists only of Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Hanks’s Philadelphia co-star Denzel Washington – but some quality control is definitely in order. open image in gallery The hit that wasn’t to be: Robin Wright and Tom Hanks de-aged in the box-office flop ‘Here’ Take James Stewart, an actor to whom Hanks was so often compared in his early career. At the end of the day, something needs to change, because at this rate, Hanks’s best films are behind him – and I say that as a Tom Hanks fan.