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Universal has optioned the film privileges to Erik Larson's nonfiction best-seller Within the Garden of Monsters for Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman to create through the duo's Playtone banner. Hanks is thinking of getting the project like a potential starring vehicle.our editor recommendsTom Hanks Developing College Athlete Comedy at Cinemax (Exclusive)'Extremely Noisy and extremely Close' Trailer: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock Star (Video) It informs the real tale of William Dodd, the U . s . States' reluctant and mild-mannered ambassador to Berlin in 1933, and the daughter Martha, a vivacious socialite who had romantic matters having a Gestapo official along with a Soviet spy. Dodd and the family in the beginning naively sailed existence in Nazi Germany (Dodd's daughter was excited when Hitler kissed her hands) however they gradually acquired understanding of the mounting brutality around them. PHOTOS: Stars Who've Performed Political figures It, whose full title is incorporated in the Garden of Monsters: Love, Terror as well as an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, was released in May. This is not Larson's first brush with Hollywood the writer is renowned for writing The Demon and also the Whitened City, another nonfiction tome in development by Leonardo DiCaprio and the Appian Way shingle. Larson is repped by Paradigm and Black Corporation. Monsters continues Hanks' passion for The Second World War-designed projects, and history generally. His Playtone was behind the Emmy-winning miniseries Gang of Siblings, The Off-shore and John Adams. The CAA-repped actor next stars in Very Noisy and extremely Close. Production co-leader Peter Cramer will oversee for Universal. Email: Borys.Package@thr.com, AndyBLewis@gmail.com Related Subjects Tom Hanks Universal Pictures Books