Hey, what happened to Tom Hanks? 2005 is Hankless, let’s blame him for the decreased box office. Tom may not have much in theaters this year, but that’s only because he’s gearing up for 2006 when he should have no fewer than four movies hitting theaters. According to Variety, one of them may end up being an Aaron Sorkin-scripted drama about a Texas Congressman called Charlie Wilson’s War. No, this isn’t a re-enactment of the state’s democratic senator’s skipping town to hang out in a luxury hotel sauna as a form of bizarrely wasteful protest.
Instead, it’s about a politician named Good Time Charlie. Charlie loves the things all politicians love, booze and whores. Problem is, Charlie got caught. In the 1980’s they found him in a hot-tub with two cocaine sniffing showgirls, and his political career was nearly flushed. He then struggled back from the brink of career suicide to head CIA missions and help bring about the fall of the Iron Curtain. Showgirls, cocaine, ménage… they should have cast Pat O’Brien.
Charlie Wilson’s War is to be Tom Hanks next project after he wraps up the film version of The DaVinci Code, though the film is as of yet directorless.
