As a Trekkie, I need to get this off my chest right away: the Vulcan salute in the picture above is incorrect. Zoe Saldaña's thumb should be extended.
The above picture is from Steven Spielberg's 2004 film "The Terminal," a film inspired by the true story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri. The story goes that Nasseri, an Iranian citizen, was traveling from London to Brussels via Paris, but was waylaid in Paris when he lost his refugee passport. Unable to leave Terminal 1 of the Charles de Gaulle Airport, Nasseri simply stayed there. He lived in the airport from 1988 until a medical emergency in 2006.
In Spielberg's film, the Nasseri stand-in was a character named Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) a citizen of a fictional Eastern European country called Krakozhia. While Viktor was traveling, there was a violent coup in his home country and its very existence was thrown into question. He was...
The above picture is from Steven Spielberg's 2004 film "The Terminal," a film inspired by the true story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri. The story goes that Nasseri, an Iranian citizen, was traveling from London to Brussels via Paris, but was waylaid in Paris when he lost his refugee passport. Unable to leave Terminal 1 of the Charles de Gaulle Airport, Nasseri simply stayed there. He lived in the airport from 1988 until a medical emergency in 2006.
In Spielberg's film, the Nasseri stand-in was a character named Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) a citizen of a fictional Eastern European country called Krakozhia. While Viktor was traveling, there was a violent coup in his home country and its very existence was thrown into question. He was...
- 2/3/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Actor Tom Hanks has come a long way since his early days on the 1980s sitcom Bosom Buddies. He has starred in over 75 films, won two Academy Awards for Best Actor for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump, and has received countless other awards, including the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award.
Among his many films, Hanks starred in Steven Spielberg’s 2004 comedy-drama The Terminal alongside Hollywood veterans Stanley Tucci and Catherine Zeta-Jones. While the film was somewhat obscure, many people couldn’t help but wonder if the storyline was based on a true story.
Tom Hanks | Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images What was ‘The Terminal’ about
Hanks plays the role of Viktor Navorski, an Eastern European man who arrives at JFK Airport in New York City and is denied entry into the United States due to an invalid passport. He cannot return to his country of origin because of an unexpected military coup,...
Among his many films, Hanks starred in Steven Spielberg’s 2004 comedy-drama The Terminal alongside Hollywood veterans Stanley Tucci and Catherine Zeta-Jones. While the film was somewhat obscure, many people couldn’t help but wonder if the storyline was based on a true story.
Tom Hanks | Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images What was ‘The Terminal’ about
Hanks plays the role of Viktor Navorski, an Eastern European man who arrives at JFK Airport in New York City and is denied entry into the United States due to an invalid passport. He cannot return to his country of origin because of an unexpected military coup,...
- 9/30/2023
- by Suse Forrest
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian man whose 18-year residence in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport loosely inspired the 2004 film “The Terminal,” has died of a heart attack, the AP reported. Nasseri died in Terminal 2F, not far from Terminal 1, where he lived from 1988 to 2006. He was 80 years old.
Nasseri was born in Soleiman, Iran, which was under British jurisdiction at the time. Upon his return from studying in England in 1974, he was reportedly jailed for protesting the Shah and kicked out of the country. Without a passport, he sought political asylum in various European countries and was approved to settle down in Belgium when the briefcase containing his papers was stolen in Paris. He eventually ended up in the airport, where he became something of a local celebrity among the staff and travelers.
In 1999, a 54-year-old Nasseri was finally granted asylum in Belgium again. However, he turned down the opportunity...
Nasseri was born in Soleiman, Iran, which was under British jurisdiction at the time. Upon his return from studying in England in 1974, he was reportedly jailed for protesting the Shah and kicked out of the country. Without a passport, he sought political asylum in various European countries and was approved to settle down in Belgium when the briefcase containing his papers was stolen in Paris. He eventually ended up in the airport, where he became something of a local celebrity among the staff and travelers.
In 1999, a 54-year-old Nasseri was finally granted asylum in Belgium again. However, he turned down the opportunity...
- 11/13/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
Paul Bullock Dec 15, 2016
Our salute to Steven Spielberg at 70 moves to the 2000s: A.I, Munich, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can & Crystal Skull.
By the end of the 1990s, Spielberg found himself in a position of unparalleled luxury. As an executive, he’d set up Amblin and DreamWorks and was enjoying success with both, while as a director he’d ridden through an uneven decade to achieve the critical success he’d longed for. Where do you go from there? What do you do when you’re the film-maker who’s done everything? Well, Spielberg himself never seemed sure of how to answer that question because during the first ten years of the new millennium he hopped from genre to genre, covering sci-fi and historical thriller, retro caper and fish-out-of-water comedy. It's one of the most eclectic decades of his career and, in my opinion at least, the...
Our salute to Steven Spielberg at 70 moves to the 2000s: A.I, Munich, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can & Crystal Skull.
By the end of the 1990s, Spielberg found himself in a position of unparalleled luxury. As an executive, he’d set up Amblin and DreamWorks and was enjoying success with both, while as a director he’d ridden through an uneven decade to achieve the critical success he’d longed for. Where do you go from there? What do you do when you’re the film-maker who’s done everything? Well, Spielberg himself never seemed sure of how to answer that question because during the first ten years of the new millennium he hopped from genre to genre, covering sci-fi and historical thriller, retro caper and fish-out-of-water comedy. It's one of the most eclectic decades of his career and, in my opinion at least, the...
- 12/10/2016
- Den of Geek
After playing romantic ‘Rana’ in Shoojit Sircar’s ‘Piku’, Irrfan Khan’s next release is one of Hollywood’s biggest and most awaited films ‘Jurassic World’ playing the legendary, cool, talented and flamboyant park owner Mr. Simon Masrani. This makes us wonder which other Hollywood characters Irrfan would be incredible in , and here is a list:
Viktor Navorski – The Terminal
Steven Spielberg’s romantic comedy ‘The Terminal’ is a heart-touching tale of Viktor Navorski who lands at an airport in the United States of America, only to find that his passport is no longer valid due to the outbreak of a civil war in Krakozhia, his homeland. The role originally played by Tom Hanks requires an actor who can showcase his expressions clearly without saying much and Irrfan is someone who can do just that. His role in ‘The Lunchbox’ as well as in ‘Piku’ has shown us his immense...
Viktor Navorski – The Terminal
Steven Spielberg’s romantic comedy ‘The Terminal’ is a heart-touching tale of Viktor Navorski who lands at an airport in the United States of America, only to find that his passport is no longer valid due to the outbreak of a civil war in Krakozhia, his homeland. The role originally played by Tom Hanks requires an actor who can showcase his expressions clearly without saying much and Irrfan is someone who can do just that. His role in ‘The Lunchbox’ as well as in ‘Piku’ has shown us his immense...
- 6/9/2015
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
To get to a happy ending in a Tom Hanks movie, an innocent character has to pay the price. Here's the proof...
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With the best part of $10bn banked for his movies across his career, Tom Hanks remains one of the biggest and most interesting movie stars on the planet. His most recent performance in Captain Phillips, for instance, was comfortably one of his best. And looking back on Hanks’ career, the path of increased boldness and range is easy to chart.
Furthermore, he’s achieved his successes without public meltdowns, without signs of turning into a diva, and without putting us through many poor films at all. The man is a hero.
Well, to everyone but certain characters in his movies. For, on rewatching Big, we became aware of an alarming trend: that there tends to be a character in a Tom Hanks movie whose role is to...
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With the best part of $10bn banked for his movies across his career, Tom Hanks remains one of the biggest and most interesting movie stars on the planet. His most recent performance in Captain Phillips, for instance, was comfortably one of his best. And looking back on Hanks’ career, the path of increased boldness and range is easy to chart.
Furthermore, he’s achieved his successes without public meltdowns, without signs of turning into a diva, and without putting us through many poor films at all. The man is a hero.
Well, to everyone but certain characters in his movies. For, on rewatching Big, we became aware of an alarming trend: that there tends to be a character in a Tom Hanks movie whose role is to...
- 7/15/2014
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
In a post-apocalyptic world ridden with zombies, the goal is always not to become one yourself. But c'mon, who hasn’t wondered what they’d look like lumbering around decked out in grimy zombie garb? Well, my day in the living dead spotlight finally arrived! I got the opportunity to hit the set of Jonathan Levine’s Warm Bodies, have the life sucked out of me and join R (Nicholas Hoult) on set for a run-in with the Bonies. Things kicked off bright and early with a group of nice, clean reporters congregating in a hotel lobby, waiting for the production van to arrive and take us to set at the Montréal-Mirabel International Airport, a location you might remember from The Terminal. However, Hugo Boss and Viktor Navorski’s home sweet home, Gate...
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- 1/4/2013
- by Perri Nemiroff
- Movies.com
Steven Spielberg has been responsible for some of the highest grossing films of all-time, all of which have formed an illustrious career of unforgettable classics.
As well as hugely popular popcorn flicks like Jurassic Park, his career has also included intelligent thrillers and historical dramas including the hauntingly realistic war epic Saving Private Ryan and the unflinchingly dark thriller Munich. Often fans of Spielberg’s work are split into camps of those who prefer his exuberant blockbusters and those who respect Spielberg for his more dramatic and serious work.
No matter how popular his films continue to be with audiences, some critics remain dismissive of Spielberg – accusing him of being a perpetrator of artless entertainment, or responsible for the age of the dumb Hollywood blockbuster. With the recent release of The Adventures Of Tintin, this argument once again came to light, with some slating it as an insult to Hergé’s original work,...
As well as hugely popular popcorn flicks like Jurassic Park, his career has also included intelligent thrillers and historical dramas including the hauntingly realistic war epic Saving Private Ryan and the unflinchingly dark thriller Munich. Often fans of Spielberg’s work are split into camps of those who prefer his exuberant blockbusters and those who respect Spielberg for his more dramatic and serious work.
No matter how popular his films continue to be with audiences, some critics remain dismissive of Spielberg – accusing him of being a perpetrator of artless entertainment, or responsible for the age of the dumb Hollywood blockbuster. With the recent release of The Adventures Of Tintin, this argument once again came to light, with some slating it as an insult to Hergé’s original work,...
- 11/22/2011
- by Stephen Leigh
- Obsessed with Film
It’s always a good sign when a Hollywood studio is so pleased and excited about one of their forthcoming blockbusters that they just can’t wait to show you as much footage from the movie as they can, like a child who has drawn a picture he is proud of and can’t wait to show his mommy what he did. Last week at Comic Con, 20th Century Fox gave us some rather nifty posters along with an extended footage reel which showed us large glimpses at half a dozen different scenes that make up Andrew Niccol’s highly intriguing sci-fi thriller In Time.
They kind of did something similar with X-Men: First Class in the early summer when they got really excited about what they had with that movie (and for the most part, rightfully so) and shoved it down our throats for weeks on end. Despite this...
They kind of did something similar with X-Men: First Class in the early summer when they got really excited about what they had with that movie (and for the most part, rightfully so) and shoved it down our throats for weeks on end. Despite this...
- 7/30/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
He has played Jim Lovell, Charlie Wilson, Chuck Noland, FBI Agent Carl Hanratty, Viktor Navorski – all real characters in films based on their true events. Now Tom Hanks is poised to play Capt. Richard Phillips, the ship helmer who experienced the wrath of modern day pirates in the recent Somalian pirate saga. Deadline reports that “Sony Pictures Entertainment is attaching Tom Hanks to play Captain Richard Phillips, the leader of the cargo ship Maersk Alabama who gave himself up as a hostage to Somali pirates to keep his crew from having to leave the ship with them. After three days alone with the armed pirates in a small lifeboat, Phillips was saved by Navy SEALs who staged a raid that left three captors dead and another in custody.”
The film will be based off the book written by Phillips about the experience called, “A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs,...
The film will be based off the book written by Phillips about the experience called, “A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs,...
- 3/15/2011
- by Kevin Coll
- FusedFilm
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