Tom Hanks, 'Game of Thrones' Director Team Up for 'Bios' Artificial Intelligence and Dog Film
Tom Hanks and "Game of Thrones" director Miguel Sapochnik are teaming up for a new movie. "Bios" will take place in a post-apocalyptic world and Hanks will co-star with a dog and an artificially intelligent (AI) robot.
The two-time Academy Award winner will play the role of the robot's creator in "Bios." His character will build the AI to become his dog's companion since he is a dying man. The robot will learn about life and friendship in the course of serving its creator and his pet.
Sapochnik, who directed the film "Repo Man" in 2010, established himself as an esteemed television director because of a critically-acclaimed "Game of Thrones" episode. He helmed the "Battle of the Bastards," which won multiple Emmy awards, including Best Director. He also directed episodes of Netflix's "Iron Fist" and HBO's "True Detective" season 2.
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Craig Luck ("Thor: The Dark World") and Ivor Powell ("The Dreamer") will write the screenplay for "Bios." Robert Zemeckis and Kevin Misher will serve as producers.
No studio distributor has been attached so far but Legendary, Warner Bros. and Studio 8 expressed interest in the movie. Filming for "Bios" will begin in early 2018.
Hanks will also work on voicing Woody in "Toy Story 4" next year but the movie won't be in theaters until 2019. The "Sully" star will also lead the American adaptation of the Swedish movie "A Man Called Ove" based on a novel from Fredrik Backman.
Meanwhile, the actor recently finished filming "The Post" (previously titled "The Paper") with director Steven Spielberg ("Saving Private Ryan") and co-stars Meryl Streep ("The Devil Wears a Prada"), Alison Brie ("GLOW") and Sarah Paulson ("American Horror Story"). Hanks played Ben Bradlee, the Washington Post editor who got in hot water with the U.S. government in 1971 for the Pentagon Papers controversy. The movie will screen in theaters on January 2018.
