EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has closed a deal to make The Comebacker, a film that reteams Tom Hanks with Marielle Heller, who directed Hanks as Mr. Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. They will shoot the film in October in New York.
Based on a short story by Dave Eggers that was turned into a script by Heller, the film is a love letter to baseball and offers a plum part to an up-and-coming leading man. Hanks plays the pitching coach of a major league hurler whose life is upended when he is hit in the head by a line drive on the mound. The devastating comebacker changes his life in all kinds of ways.
Three studios vied for the project, but Sony Pictures gets this baseball movie. There are several great roles, but nobody is set yet but Hanks. Deadline was first to reveal the
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