Already Loud and Closer

Build up the tear duct reservoirs, you'll weep them empty in 2012 (or maybe 2013 or 14, you know how these Hollywood things go) as Oskar Schell goes searching for his dad in the screen adaptation of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Sandra Bullock and Tom Hanks are in talks to insure that the mega-budgeted, high-expectationed film will grind on every heart with its story of how a 9-year-old boy goes on a quest with his father's mysterious key in the aftermath of the old man's death during the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.