Sony Pictures Lands Marielle Heller-Helmed Baseball Pic ‘The Comebacker’ With Tom Hanks

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has closed a woody to make The Comebacker, a movie that reteams Tom Hanks pinch Marielle Heller, who directed Hanks arsenic Mr. Rogers successful A Beautiful Day successful nan Neighborhood. They will sprout nan movie successful October successful New York.

Based connected a short communicative by Dave Eggers that was turned into a book by Heller, nan movie is simply a emotion missive to baseball, and offers a plum portion to an up and coming starring man. Hanks plays nan pitching coach of a awesome convention hurler whose life is upended erstwhile he is deed successful nan caput by a statement thrust connected nan mound. The devastating comebacker changes his life successful each kinds of ways.

Three studios vied for nan project, but Sony Pictures gets this shot movie. There are respective awesome role, but cipher is group yet but Hanks. Deadline was first to uncover nan package.

Hanks, who antecedently starred successful A League of their Own, will produced pinch Playtone partner Gary Goetzman, and Heller’s producing partner Leah Holzer astatine Defiant By Nature.

Hanks and Playtone are repped by CAA and Heller is repped by UTA.

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