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.

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.

Tom Hanks loves this 1960s science fiction classic. In fact, he says he knows it so well he could provide his own non-stop commentary for it.

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