{"id":314274,"date":"2026-02-24T06:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/314274\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T06:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:41:10","slug":"tom-hanks-to-play-abraham-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/314274\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks To Play Abraham Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tom-hanks-to-play-abraham-lincoln.jpg\" data-caption=\"Universal Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tom-hanks-to-play-abraham-lincoln.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"tom-hanks-to-play-abraham-lincoln\"\/><\/a>Universal Pictures<\/p>\n<p>Oscar winner Tom Hanks will both produce and play former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in the film adaptation of George Saunders\u2019 bestselling novel \u201cLincoln in the Bardo\u201d at Starburns Industries.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar-nominated filmmaker Duke Johnson (\u201cAnomalisa\u201d) will direct and produce the project, which Hanks\u2019 Playtone label and his regular collaborator Gary Goetzman will produce.<\/p>\n<p>The story centers on Lincoln\u2019s relationship with his recently deceased 11-year-old son, rather than focusing on the more typical aspects of Lincoln\u2019s life usually seen in adaptations such as the Civil War, the abolition of slavery, and his assassination.<\/p>\n<p>To capture this, 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 a group of characters that are \u201cboth living and dead, historical and invented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hanks narrated and hosted the 2013 docudrama \u201cKilling Lincoln,\u201d but this marks his first time playing the man.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, Paul Young and Devon Young Rabinowitz are also producing the project which will film in London.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/tom-hanks-play-abraham-lincoln-in-the-bardo-1236512838\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">THR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/kpop-frankenstein-join-criterion-collection\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cKpop,\u201d \u201cFrankenstein\u201d Join Criterion Collection<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/lily-collins-to-star-as-audrey-hepburn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lily Collins To Star As Audrey Hepburn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal Pictures Oscar winner Tom Hanks will both produce and play former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[73545,321,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-314274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314274","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=314274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}