Tom Hanks to Play Abraham Lincoln in Hybrid Adaptation
Adaptation of George Saunders' Booker Prize–winning novel will blend live-action and stop-motion to show Lincoln grieving his 11-year-old son in 1862.
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Tom Hanks is set to portray President Abraham Lincoln and will produce Lincoln in the Bardo, reports said.
The project adapts George Saunders' New York Times bestselling novel that won the Booker Prize in 2017 and centers on Lincoln grieving his 11-year-old son's death.
Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Duke Johnson will direct and produce, with Paul Young and Devon Young Rabinowitz producing for Starburns Industries, reports said.
The hybrid production will blend live-action and stop-motion, is expected to film in London, and depicts events in 1862, months before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Filming has not yet begun and no official release date has been set, reports said.
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The novel is set in 1862 and depicts President Abraham Lincoln grieving the death of his 11-year-old son Willie in a cemetery, where Willie's ghost lingers in the bardo, a purgatorial afterlife populated by ghosts in denial of their deaths who interact through monologues and urge Willie to move on.[1]
Tom Hanks will portray Abraham Lincoln and produce; Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Duke Johnson will direct and produce; Paul Young and Devon Young Rabinowitz will produce for Starburns Industries.
The adaptation will blend live-action and stop-motion animation, with filming expected in London; filming has not yet begun and no release date is set.
The bardo is a purgatorial afterlife state in the cemetery where ghosts, unable to accept their deaths, remain in distorted physical forms manifesting unresolved issues, refusing to move on via the matterlightblooming phenomenon.[1]
