Few movie stars carry as much name recognition as Tom Hanks, who has starred in some of the most important movies of all time. Hanks is a two-time Oscar-winner, and he even won his awards in back-to-back years for his performances in Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. Hanks was nominated five years prior for his work on Big, and he’s also been nominated for his performances in Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away, and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — most fans agree that Hanks losing for Saving Private Ryan is one of the most surprising snubs of all time. More recently, Hanks starred in one of the most underrated Apple TV projects in history with Greyhound, the WWII submarine thriller co-starring Stephen Graham. Hanks and Graham are set to return in a sequel to Greyhound that’s coming to Apple TV soon.
The longest movie of Hanks’ career recently celebrated its 25th anniversary a few years ago, when 2024 marked 25 years since The Green Mile hit theaters around the world. Based on the famous novel of the same name by Stephen King, The Green Mile clocks in with a behemoth runtime of three hours and nine minutes, making it almost 20 full minutes longer than the second-longest movie of Hanks’ career, Cloud Atlas. The Green Mile also stars the late Michael Clarke Duncan, and although it’s been over 25 years since the film was in theaters, it’s still relevant even to this day. The Green Mile is lacking a streaming home in America right now, but the film has quietly become one of the top 10 most-popular VOD purchases around the world on Prime Video and Apple TV in several countries.
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Collider Exclusive · Universe Personality Quiz Which Iconic Universe Do You Belong in the Most? Star Wars · Lord of the Rings · Harry Potter · Game of Thrones · Star Trek
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Five legendary universes. Five completely different visions of what the world could be — or already was. One of them is the world your instincts, your values, and your particular way of existing were built for. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🚀Star Wars
💍Lord of the Rings
🧙Harry Potter
👑Game of Thrones
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🖖Star Trek
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What gives your life its deepest sense of meaning? Every universe is built around a different answer to this question.
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Which kind of world do you most want to inhabit? The environment shapes who you become. Choose carefully.
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How do you prefer your conflicts resolved? The shape of a world’s conflicts tells you everything about its soul.
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Who do you want beside you when things get difficult? Your ideal companions reveal the world you were made for.
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What is your relationship with power? How you seek, wield, or resist power is the map of who you are.
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How does your universe treat good and evil? A world’s moral architecture tells you more about it than any map.
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What role would you naturally fall into? Every universe has archetypes. Which one fits you without trying?
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What do you ultimately believe about the future? The answer to this is the clearest window into which universe already lives inside you.
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Your Universe Has Been Chosen You Belong In…
Your answers point to the iconic universe your values, your instincts, and your particular way of seeing the world were built for. This is where you would find your people — and your purpose.
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A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
You believe in the cause — in the idea that freedom is worth fighting for even when the odds are impossible and the empire is vast.
You are drawn to the moral clarity of a universe where hope itself is a form of resistance.
You’d find your people in the Rebellion — a ragtag coalition of true believers held together by conviction more than resources.
Star Wars is fundamentally a story about ordinary people choosing to matter in an extraordinary conflict — and that is exactly your kind of story.
The Force may or may not be with you. But the will to use it for something larger than yourself certainly is.
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Middle-earth
Lord of the Rings
You understand, in the deepest part of yourself, that the journey matters as much as the destination — and that the world’s beauty is worth protecting even at great cost.
Middle-earth is a world of ancient wonder, deep friendship, and a darkness that only retreats when enough small acts of courage accumulate.
You would thrive here because you value the fellowship more than the glory — the road more than the arrival.
Tolkien’s universe rewards patience, loyalty, and the willingness to carry something heavy across a very long distance.
Those are not burdens to you. They are simply how you move through the world.
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The Wizarding World
Harry Potter
You believe that love, loyalty, and doing what’s right are not naive sentiments — they are the most powerful forces in any world, magical or otherwise.
The Wizarding World is a place of wonder hidden in plain sight, where learning is transformative and the bonds you form at school follow you into every battle.
You would flourish here because you take both the magic and the friendships seriously — and you understand that one without the other is incomplete.
Harry Potter’s universe ultimately rewards those who choose to stand for something even when standing is terrifying.
That choice — made quietly, without guarantee — is something you understand completely.
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Westeros · The Known World
Game of Thrones
You see the world clearly — its power structures, its hypocrisies, its brutal arithmetic — and you are not paralysed by that clarity. You use it.
Westeros is a world that rewards intelligence, adaptability, and the willingness to understand that every alliance is also a negotiation.
You would survive here — possibly thrive here — because you don’t confuse the world as it is with the world as you’d like it to be.
Game of Thrones is a story about what happens when the idealists and the realists collide. You are sharp enough to know which one lasts longer.
Winter always comes. You are already prepared.
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The United Federation of Planets
Star Trek
You believe the future is worth building — that curiosity, cooperation, and the expansion of understanding are not just ideals but the most practical path forward for any civilisation.
Star Trek is a universe where the questions matter as much as the answers, and where encountering something utterly alien is cause for wonder rather than fear.
You would belong here because you are fundamentally optimistic about what intelligence and decency can achieve — while being honest about how hard that achievement is.
The Federation is the universe’s most ambitious thought experiment: what if we actually got better?
You don’t just hope that’s possible. You think it’s the only thing worth working toward.
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What Is ‘The Green Mile’ About?
The official synopsis for The Green Mile, which earned scores of 78% from critics and 94% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows: “Paul Edgecomb walks the mile with a variety of cons. He has never encountered someone like John Coffey, a massive black man convicted of brutally killing a pair of young sisters. Coffey has the size and strength to kill anyone, but not the demeanor. Beyond his simple, naive nature and a deathly fear of the dark, Coffey seems to possess a prodigious, supernatural gift. Paul begins to question whether Coffey is truly guilty of murdering the two girls.” Additional cast members for The Green Mile include David Morse as Brutus Howell, Bonnie Hunt as Jan Edgecomb, James Cromwell as Warden Hal Moores, and Graham Greene as Arlen Bitterbuck.
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Check out The Green Mile on VOD platforms like Prime Video and Apple TV and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Tom Hanks’ future projects.
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