Tom Hanks To Take On The Nazi’s With Next Film

Tom Hanks is set to produce a Nazi thriller based on the biography ‘Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love and Betrayal’, which has recently been published.
New Line Cinema won the rights to the book by Ben Macintyre and Hanks will develop it with Gary Goetzman.

The book was published last week by Harmony Books and centres on the real-life story of Eddie Chapman, a criminal, con man and philanderer who was recruited by the Nazis at the beginning of the second world war. Quickly becoming a master of espionage, Chapman contacts the M15 while on a mission to destroy an airplane factory in Britain, and so begins his life as a double agent.

The bidding war came down to New Line and its Time Warner corporate sibling Warner Bros., and was ignited by a dazzling review in the New York Times. Sources have said that New Line co-chairman Bob Shaye read the review and made it his mission to acquire the film rights to the book. The deal was reportedly worth around seven figures!

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