This article was originally published in 2016 and has been updated with subsequent Tom Hanks films, including Here. You might say there’s a unified theory of Hanks. The actor contains multitudes but is always Tom Hanks.

American cultural icon, tom Hanks has given his two cents about comic book movies. Hanks believes that the new technologies and visual effects have taken over the true essence of a good film.

Tom Hanks sits down with TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie to discuss his new movie, “Here,” which tells the story of several generations of families through one single vantage point in the same spot over centuries.

Legendary director Robert Zemeckis explains why Here, his new movie starring Tom Hanks, is possibly the most difficult film he's ever made.

"Here" is here. And Robert Zemeckis' latest technologically innovative drama stars his "Forrest Gump" team of Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, this time embodying a couple living in a house. The angle of the shot never changes - it's inside the living of a stately home,