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Tom Hanks will also serve as an executive producer on the project via his production company Playtone alongside Gary Goetzman, Mimi Valdés and Ali’s wife and producing partner Amatus Karim Ali of Ali’s Know Wonder banner and Burns.“House of Cards'” Beau Willimon, who was originally attached to write an earlier version of the project, will serve as a co-executive producer, as will Playtone’s Steven Shareshian.Ali has previously portrayed Johnson in a stage production of “The Great White Hope” in 2000.
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