Thursday, 2 October 2014

Classic 80s Tom Hanks Film 'Big' Headed For The Small Screen

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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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