Tom Hanks' 1988 film "Big" is headed for a small screen adaptation as a half-hour comedy "event series."
Executive
producers Kevin Biegel and Mike Royce, who wrote and produced Fox's
short-lived U.S. Army sitcom "Enlisted," will co-write and exec produce
the series.
According to The Hollywood Reporter,
the show's focus will be on "what it means to be an adult and what it
means to be a kid — and how in today's world, those two things are more
confused than ever."
"Big," which was directed by Penny Marshall,
is about a boy who put a coin in a Zoltar fortune-telling machine on
the New Jersey boardwalk and wished he was big. Hanks played the role of
the boy in his adult body after he awakens to find his wish has been
granted.
The film earned Hanks his first Best Actor Oscar
nomination, and screenwriters Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg were
nominated for Best Screenplay. Hanks did land a Golden Globe for his
performance, and the film won in the Best Motion Picture - Comedy or
Musical category.
Biegel is a co-creator of TBS' "Cougar Town," while Royce is co-creator of TNT's "Men of a Certain Age."src starpulse.com/
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