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Hanks Enters "The Risk Pool"
Thursday, April 29, 2004 10:09 AM EDT
Castle Rock and Warner Bros. will turn the Richard Russo novel "The Risk Pool" into a star vehicle for Tom Hanks, with Lawrence Kasdan writing the script and directing.
"The Risk Pool" tells the story of a man who is suddenly charged with raising his son, after his estranged wife has a nervous breakdown. Hanks will play a charming petty thief and gambler, whose unreliability puts him on the lowest rung of the insurance risk pool. Kasdan has nearly finished with a first draft of the script.
"(The) father is a charming but unreliable screw-up who introduces this sheltered boy to this wonderful and slightly dark world of pool halls and bars," Kasdan said. "The relationship between them is funny and moving, and I don't recall being so immediately struck by a book since 'The Accidental Tourist'. I took it to Tom because I thought he would be so perfect in the role."
Russo, whose best-known screen adaptation so far is the Paul Newman starrer "Nobody's Fool", adapted his book "Empire Falls" for an HBO miniseries.
Source: Variety
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