Hanks is a Natural For “Harvey” Remake
August 4th, 2009 - 6:41 pm ICT by IBNSAug 4 (IBNS) Tom Hanks looks like all set to play the lead role in Steven Spielberg’s next flick Harvey.
Hanks will play the role of amiable eccentric, Elwood P. Dowd, and his friendship with a six and one-half foot tall invisible rabbit, and how it affects his family and community. The play won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944, and was also turned into the 1950 Universal film that starred Jimmy Stewart and Josephine Hull. The film is an adaptation of the Mary Chase Pulitzer Prize-winning play Harvey.
Harvey was first made in 1950 and starred Jimmy Stewart as the loveable eccentric whose best pal.
NBC Chicago revealed that Hanks will be Spielberg’s first choice. Hanks has been frequent in Spielberg and has collaborated with the director in Saving Private Ryan and Terminal.
The film will be a co-production between 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks. It will also be the first screenplay by the bestselling novelist Jonathan Tropper.
Spielberg will also produce the film with Don Gregory, with Elizabeth Gabler and Carla Hacken, who are overseeing for Fox 2000, which acquired the rights in 2008.
The film, ostensibly a comedy, touches on themes of alcoholism, mental illness and the nature of conformity and reality. Hanks seem a good fit for the role of the protagonist but it is to be seen when Spielberg show us the bunny?
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