Tom Hanks To Star In Starburns Live Action/Stop Motion Adaptation of ‘Lincoln In The Bardo’

Actor Tom Hanks has been cast to star in Starburns Industries’ live-action and stop-motion adaptation of the 2017 Booker Prize Winner, ‘Lincoln In The Bardo’.

The book begins less than one year into the American Civil War. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation is realising it is in for a long, bloody war. However, Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son Willie lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. Despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery, where his father visits often to hold his son. On the other side, Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. In this transitional state, called the bardo in the Tibetan tradition, a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul.

Helming the production is Duke Johnson, who co-directed the Oscar-nominated stop-motion Charlie Hoffman psychological drama, ‘Anomalisa’.

Hanks will play the live-action Lincoln, and is a producer alongside Gary Goetzman (Playtone), Duke Johnson, Paul Young, and Devon Young Rabinowitz (Starburns).

Previous projects by Starburns Production House include ‘Anomalisa’, producer on the animated series ‘Rick and Morty’ (Adult Swim), ‘Mary Shelley Frankenhole’ (Adult Swim), and ‘Animals’ (HBO).