'Captain Phillips' Team Of Director Paul Greengrass & Tom Hanks To Reunite For 'News Of The World'

The last time filmmaker Paul Greengrass and actor Tom Hanks collaborated, it was for the 2013 film “Captain Phillips.” And their teamwork resulted in six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Now, the duo is in talks to get back together for a new film, which judging by the source material, seems ripe for more Oscar love in the future.

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According to a new report from Variety, Greengrass and Hanks are in negotiations to team up for a new film titled “News of the World.” Based on the bestselling novel from author Paulette Jiles, with a script from “Lion” writer Luke Davies, the film follows a man, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, who travels around the country in post-Civil War America. While in a new town, Kidd goes around reading the newspapers to the illiterate citizens. During one of these trips, Kidd is entrusted with a 10-year-old girl, who he has to escort back to her relatives. As you might have guessed, the lead role would go to Hanks, and seems like a perfect mixture of every type of film that the actor delights audiences in.

Greengrass recently released the Netflix film “22 July,” about the real-life Norwegian terrorist attack that shook the world. However, he’s probably best known for being one of the masterminds behind the ‘Bourne’ spy franchise, as well as films like “United 93” and “Green Zone.”

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Hanks, of course, is an icon at this point. Over the course of his career, he’s been nominated for 5 Oscars, winning two for his work in “Philadelphia” and “Forrest Gump,” respectively. Most recently, the actor showed up in the 2017 film “The Post.” He’ll next be seen/heard in the upcoming sequel “Toy Story 4” and the Mister Rogers biopic, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.”

Obviously, it’s still too early to have a release date on the film, but the report says that more casting news is on the way.