First reported on late last year, Tom Hanks and his producing partner Gary Goetzman have plans to adapt Erik Larson’s non-fiction novel In the Garden of the Beasts for the screen with Hanks playing a leading role. Now, Deadline reports that The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius is in talks to helm with Natalie Portman eyed to play Hanks’ character’s daughter.
The book itself, published last year, is officially described as follows:
Portman, who last appeared on the big screen in Thor, will reprise her role as Jane Foster in next year’s Thor: The Dark World, now in production in the UK.
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