Tom Hanks and Marielle Heller have another project on the way

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Bad Bunny and Colman Domingo are also eyed to star in the reunion for the A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood team.

that the two will work together for an adaptation of Dave Egger’s short story “The Comebacker,” which follows a jaded sports journalist reinvigorated by a pitcher moving from the minor leagues to the majors.

Hanks is eyed to play the journalist character, whose stories about the pitcher resonate after the pitcher gets a head injury that makes him start speaking especially poetically. The original story is centered on the San Francisco Giants but, per, the film is expected to center on the New York Mets. Bad Bunny and Colman Domingo are also eyed to appear in the film, which is currently the subject of a studio bidding war, with Sony in the lead. , in which Hanks portrayed Fred Rogers as a journalist, played by Matthew Rhys, wrote a profile about him. They first connected after he saw her first film, the, and they struck up a professional relationship and a friendship. “You know the thing about Tom Hanks is once you’re friends with Tom Hanks it feels casual like that,”. “He’s really a normal-feeling guy. You don’t feel like you’re in conversation with one of the world’s biggest movie stars.” In any case, we’re glad to see those conversations kept going.

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