Tom Hanks Loves Starbucks

Posted on March 28, 2006

According to The Hollywood Reporter Tom Hanks is set to star in the film version of the soon-to-be-published book, How Starbucks Saved My Life (Gotham).

Tom Hanks sure likes his triple venti latte. The actor is attached to star in "How Starbucks Saved My Life," a nonfiction book proposal by Michael Gates Gill that was sold to Universal. Gus Van Sant is in negotiations to direct. Hanks will produce with Playtone partner Gary Goetzman.

The story centers 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. CAA-repped Gill is a nonfiction writer and speaker who co-wrote "Fired Up! The Dramatic Truth of What It Really Takes to Move from Fearful Employee to Successful, Fired Up Entrepreneur." Van Sant, repped by WMA, is attached to direct "The Time Traveler's Wife" at New Line. His credits include 2005's "Last Days."

The memoir by Michael Gill tells the story of how he was downsized from his job as an executive at J. Walter Thompson. In his 60s, Gill's luck changed when he walked into a Starbucks and walked back out with a job offer from the store's manager. We're a little confused. Going from executive at the world's oldest advertising agency to Starbucks is a "feel good" story how exactly?

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