Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close adaptation getting closer

From DHD – Warner Bros and Paramount are close to teaming up on a feature adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Eric Roth penned the script for director Stephen Daldry and producer Scott Rudin, who have been working on the project for the last five years. Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks are circling the project.

Book Jacket:

Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts on an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey.

You can read an excerpt here.

Critics say (of the book):

“It’s hard to believe that such an inherently sad story could be so entertaining…Foer’s excellent second novel vibrates with the details of a current tragedy but successfully explores the universal questions that trauma brings on its floodtide.” – Library Journal

“Arrestingly beautiful…ends with what is undoubtedly the most beautiful and heartbreaking flip book in all of literature.” – Booklist

Brilliant.” – Kirkus Reviews