London, Feb. 24 -- Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks is set to portray former US President Abraham Lincoln in the feature adaptation of George Saunders' best-selling 2017 novel Lincoln in the Bardo. The novel, which won the 2017 Booker Prize, explores Lincoln's grief over the death of his 11-year-old son, Willie Lincoln, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The film, helmed by Duke Johnson, will be a hybrid of live-action and stop-motion animation and is currently in production in London. Johnson, known for co-directing the Oscar-nominated animated feature Anomalisa (2015), is directing the project from a script penned by Saunders himself.

Hanks will appear as the live-action version of the 16th US President. He is also producing the film a...