Warner Bros.® studios and Paramount® pictures have paired up to make the film adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's 2005 book, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close: A Novel. Rumors are the film will be directed by Stephen Daldry (The Reader, The Hours), and as of this week, the film will star Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock.
Foer's book takes place one year after 9/11, and centers around a nine-year old boy named Oskar whose father was killed in the North Tower. After Oskar finds a mysterious key left behind by his father, he goes on an inspired hunt around Manhattan to find what the key unlocks. As of now, it has not been officially confirmed that Hanks and Bullock will play the boy's parents. In the book, Oskar's grandparents play a large part by reliving their life stories from World War II, so it is a possibility the two A-listers could be cast as them. The role of Oskar, however, is still up for grabs.
The film will start shooting in New York around mid-to-late January. This will be the first film Bullock has starred in since winning her Oscar® last winter, and based on the Oscar®-caliber talent the film is already drawing in, it looks like Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close will be a great follow-up. Hanks already has two Oscars® (Forrest Gump, Philadelphia) and three other nods, director Stephen Daldry has three nominations himself (Billy Elliot, The Hours, The Reader), and the screenwriter chosen to adapt the novel Eric Roth, has a statuette of his own for his work on Forrest Gump. There may have never been so much Oscar® buzz around a film that has not even been made yet. No release date has been confirmed for the film, but look for more news and rumors as the film shoot approaches.
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