Tom Hanks, Bad Bunny Team Up for Baseball Movie "The Comebacker"

Tom Hanks and Marielle Heller have found their next collaboration after the Oscar-nominated 2019 movie “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.”

The director and star are plotting a reunion for a poignant baseball dramedy feature that’s already attracted multiple studio bidders.

Hanks will star in an feature adaptation of the short story “The Comebacker,” with Heller to direct.

Hanks and Heller will produce the film through their respective production labels.

The source material is from Pulitzer Prize finalist Dave Eggers, whose works “A Hologram for the King” and “The Circle” both inspired films starring Hanks.

Rap supernova Bad Bunny and Oscar nominee Colman Domingo are eyeing roles in the project.

While acquisition talks are active at studios across town, sources said Sony Pictures is in pole position to win the film thanks to an attractive offer and, of course, history, as Sony released “A Beautiful Day.”

“The Comebacker” is the first in a series of shorts by Eggers for a story collection titled “The Forgetters.”

It follows a fading sports journalist named Lionel whose passion for his craft and his life is awakened by a pitcher called up from the minor leagues.

The title refers to an injury the pitcher suffered when a batter sent a ball back with brute force into the pitcher’s skull. After the injury, the pitcher exhibits unexpected behavior, including poetic speech that makes stories written by Hanks’ journalist resonate with readers across the country.

The short story centers on the San Francisco Giants. It’s unclear what role Bad Bunny, aka Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, would take in the project.

The Grammy winner is on a world tour through the end of July, and timing for film production is unclear.

At the very least, the rapper’s interest would validate Hanks’ much-celebrated appearance at a Bad Bunny show in Australia in February. Domingo’s involvement is similarly at the “interested” stage.