Sony Dates Tom Hanks Film The Comebacker for July 30, 2027
Reuniting Hanks with director Marielle Heller, the studio has secured Major League Baseball cooperation and established Playtone and Defiant by Nature as producers for a summer release.
Overview
- Sony announced that The Comebacker will open July 30, 2027, formally scheduling the film for a late-summer theatrical release.
- Marielle Heller is directing from her adaptation of Dave Eggers’s short story, reuniting her with Tom Hanks after their prior collaboration on A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.
- The film is being produced by Gary Goetzman’s Playtone and Leah Holzer’s Defiant by Nature with cooperation from Major League Baseball, which typically means league access and branding support.
- The project drew a studio bidding war that Sony won and has drawn early, unconfirmed casting interest in performers such as Bad Bunny and Colman Domingo.
- Published accounts differ on the movie’s central premise—one source follows an older beat reporter reignited by a new pitcher while another says Hanks plays a pitching coach struck by a comebacker—leaving the film’s exact plot still unclear.