MUMBAI: Warner Bros. is all set to release its upcoming film, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, on 2 March.
Adapted from the acclaimed bestseller by Jonathan Safran Foer, the film is a story that unfolds from inside the young mind of Oskar Schell, an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker whose discovery of a key in his deceased father’s belongings sets him off on an urgent search across the city for the lock it will open.
A year after his father died in the World Trade Center on what Oskar calls “The Worst Day,” he is determined to keep his vital connection to the man who playfully cajoled him into confronting his wildest fears.
Now, as Oskar crosses the five New York boroughs in quest of the missing lock – encountering an eclectic assortment of people who are each survivors in their own way – he begins to uncover unseen links to the father he misses, to the mother who seems so far away from him and to the whole noisy, dangerous, discombobulating world around him.
The film has been directed by three-time Academy Award nominee Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by Academy Award winner Eric Roth based on a novel written Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel.
Produced by Scott Rudin along with Eli Bush and Tarik Karam, the film stars Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock along with newcomer Thomas Horn in the role of Oskar.