Tom Hanks has done it all; he’s played astronauts, policemen, desert island survivors and – memorably in The Man With One Red Shoe – a man with one red shoe. But now Tom Hanks faces his toughest challenge – coffee.
Because, fresh from boring the living balls off the world with his strangely-haired turn in The Da Vinci Code, Tom Hanks is going to produce and star in another book adaptation, a film called How Starbucks Saved My Life, all about a man with one red shoe. Or how Starbucks saved some guy’s life. One or the other.
God bless Starbucks. If it isn’t aggressively expanding at the expense of smaller, individual coffee houses, it’s banning Bruce Springsteen for singing about bumming prostitutes or saving people’s lives.
Yes, you read that right – Starbucks actually saved someone’s life.
Not by mainlining a drip of Zen tea into someone’s veins, or
constructing a rudimentary splint from those poncey wooden stirrer
things for a customer who broke their back in a horrifying coffee
accident, but by giving a middle-aged man a job and – sigh – teaching
him the true meaning of life. And Tom Hanks (DVDs) wants in.
Because now Tom Hanks has taught actors about making the perfect Oscar-winning speech,
he wants to teach people about the simple joys of life. And Skinny
Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins, naturally. How Starbucks Saved My Life is a non-fiction
book proposal by Michael Gates Gill that has been sold to Universal.
The Hollywood Reporter describes How Starbucks Saved My Life:
The story centres on an older ad exec who loses his job and family and
has to go to work at Starbucks to pay the bills. He befriends the young
manager and learns about life and love.
Yeurgh – it’s almost enough to put you off your Colombia Nariño Supremo. Michael Gates Gill previously wrote Fired Up! The Dramatic Truth of What It Really Takes to Move from Fearful Employee to Successful, Fired Up Entrepreneur. Gus Van Sant is apparently in negotiations to direct How Starbucks Saved My Life.
Anyone hoping to see Tom Hanks dressed in a Starbucks uniform any time soon is in for a disappointment – there’s no release date set for How Starbucks Saved My Life. Of course, if nobody goes to see The Da Vinci Code, Hanks might have to actually take a job at Starbucks to make ends meet, but that’s probably a long shot.
Read more:
Hanks finds room for ‘Starbucks’ film – Hollywood Reporter
[story by Stuart Heritage]
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