Having worked with Tom Twyker on Cloud Atlas, Tom Hanks is teaming up with the director for an adaptation of Dave Eggers’ novel, A Hologram For The King, according to Deadline.
The book is about a down-on-his-luck businessman who decides to leave America and try to find better fortune in Saudi Arabia, hoping to ‘stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter’s college tuition, and do something memorable.’
At the moment the project doesn’t have a studio or financing attached, but with Hanks attached, it should be able to drum up some interest. Hanks will next be seen in the Somalian pirate drama Captain Phillips, before playing Walt Disney in Saving Mr. Banks.
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