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Jonathan Bailey, Willem Dafoe and Peter Dinklage have all joined the voice cast of the film adaptation of George Saunders’ New York Times bestseller “Lincoln in the Bardo”.
The screen adaptation of the 2017 Booker Prize winner has been set up at Starburns Industries and will see Oscar winner Tom Hanks playing Abraham Lincoln in the live-action portion of the film.
The story centers on Lincoln’s relationship with his recently deceased 11-year-old son, rather than focusing on the more typical aspects of Lincoln’s life usually seen in adaptations such as the Civil War, the abolition of slavery, and his assassination.
To capture this, the production will blend stop-motion animation and live-action to explore “themes of love, empathy and human capacity in the face of unimaginable grief” via a group of characters that are “both living and dead, historical and invented.”
All three actors will play ghosts. Bailey voices Roger Bevins, a young gay man who took his own life over a failed love affair and instantly regretted it.
Dafoe will play Reverend Everly Thomas, a minister who died believing he would go to heaven but found out otherwise.
Dinklage voices Hans Vollman, a man obsessed with his dream of being reunited with his much younger wife.
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Duke Johnson (“Anomalisa”) will direct and produce the project, which Hanks’ Playtone label and his regular collaborator Gary Goetzman will produce.
Source: Deadline
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