Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock To Be "Extremely Close" For Upcoming Film

NEW YORK (CBS) Oscar winners Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks are set to star in the tale of a nine-year-old boy who loses his father in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers.

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The upcoming film, entitled "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," adapted from the 2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, is being directed by British film-maker Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by "Forrest Gump's" Oscar-winning Eric Roth, according to published reports.

 London newspaper The Guardian reports that  Bullock and Hanks are in talks to play the boy's parents, with producers seeking a child actor for the role of Oskar Schell, in preparation for a mid-to-late January 2011 shoot in New York.

The newspaper suggests the movie will feature multiple narrators and time frames, and there is also a segue in which the child's grandparents reveal how they met and married during World War II.

Paramount and Warner Brothers are teaming up on the project, with Scott Rudin, the Oscar-winning producer of "No Country for Old Men," also in the frame. Together, Daldry and Rudin delivered Best Actress wins for Nicole Kidman in "The Hours" and Kate Winslet in "The Reader," so the film looks like potential awards show bait.