Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks is set to star in "How Starbucks Saved My Life," a film based on an as-yet unwritten memoir, Variety reports.

The memoir, by Michael Gates Gill, centres on a 60-year-old former executive who found himself down and out when he was downsized out of a job.

In the midst of a personal downward spiral in light of an affair that ended his marriage, Gill's luck turned around when he was offered a job at Starbucks, thereby giving his life new purpose.

The premise of the memoir was enough to convince several studios to pursue the blueprint for a film, based on the timely subject of mature execs who must re-start their lives when they're made redundant from their jobs.

Gus Van Sant ("Good Will Hunting") will direct the film.

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