Tom Hanks will play Abraham Lincoln in Starburns Industries' live-action/stop-motion animation hybrid movie Lincoln in the Bardo, based on the 2017 Booker Prize-winning novel by George Saunders, Deadline reported.
Hanks is also producing through his Playtone label with partner Gary Goetzman. Production will take place in London. Saunders is adapting his novel with filmmaker Duke Johnson (Anomalisa), who will direct and produce.
Lincoln in the Bardo "will employ a unique blend of stop-motion animation and live action to explore one of the most intimate moments of Lincoln's life, centering on his relationship with his recently deceased 11-year-old son," Deadline wrote. "The movie will explore themes of love, empathy and human capacity in the face of grief as the story unfolds through an ensemble of characters, both living and dead, historical and invented."