The Evolution of Charlie Wilson's War

"We were doing something different that hadn't been done before, both in the way that we were doing it, but also in the content that we were making and the story we were making," Hanks said. "I had only done comedy, animated comedy, up to that point, and so that was a really interesting shift,. ... Just continual writing about these characters, other characters was non-stop." Tom would write long hand,Tom would write on his typewriter, Tom would write, you know, obviously, on a computer.