{"id":313716,"date":"2026-02-23T22:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313716\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:53:07","slug":"tom-hanks-to-play-abraham-lincoln-in-lincoln-in-the-bardo-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313716\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks to Play Abraham Lincoln in ‘Lincoln In The Bardo’ Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOscar-winner Tom Hanks<\/a> is set to portray President Abraham Lincoln in the upcoming film adaptation of \u201cLincoln in the Bardo<\/a>\u201d from Starburns Industries.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to starring as the 16th U.S. President, Hanks will also produce the project, based on George Saunders\u2019 bestselling novel, via his Playtone label with partner Gary Goetzman. Saunders is adapting the novel with Oscar-nominated filmmaker Duke Johnson<\/a> (\u201cAnomalisa\u201d) set to direct and produce. <\/p>\n

\n\tThis is far from Hanks\u2019 first time portraying a real-life figure, with his filmography ranging from astronaut Jim Lovell (\u201cApollo 13\u201d) to hero pilot Chesley \u2018Sully\u2019 Sullenberger (\u201cSully\u201d), as well as Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee (\u201cThe Post\u201d), Fred Rodgers (\u201cA Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood\u201d) and Walt Disney (\u201cSaving Mr. Banks\u201d), but it is the actor\u2019s first time portraying a U.S. President. [Note: Hanks narrated and hosted the 2013 docudrama,\u201dKilling Lincoln,\u201d and the two are distant relatives on Lincoln\u2019s maternal side.]<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile President Lincoln\u2019s life \u2014 leading the country through the Civil War and abolishing slavery, as in Steven Spielberg\u2019s \u201cLincoln,\u201d for which Daniel Day Lewis won the best actor Oscar \u2014 and his 1865 assassination are more often explored in cinema and other forms of media, \u201cLincoln in the Bardo\u201d centers on Lincoln\u2019s relationship with his recently deceased 11-year-old son. To capture one of the most intimate aspects of the politican\u2019s life, the production will blend stop-motion animation and live-action to explore \u201cthemes of love, empathy and human capacity in the face of unimaginable grief\u201d via an ensemble of characters, \u201cboth living and dead, historical and invented.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tJohnson, Paul Young and Devon Young Rabinowitz are producing for Starburns Industries, with the project as the first to go into production since the studio announced its film fund. Steven Shareshian, Aaron Mitchell and Saunders will serve as executive producers. Production will take place in London. <\/p>\n

\n\tHanks is repped by CAA and Greenberg Glusker. Deadline first reported his involvement in the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar-winner Tom Hanks is set to portray President Abraham Lincoln in the upcoming film adaptation of \u201cLincoln in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,146667,93,61,60,146668,1054],"class_list":{"0":"post-313716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-duke-johnson","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-lincoln-in-the-bardo","14":"tag-tom-hanks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}