John Goodman is joining the cast of
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Stephen Daldry's adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer novel.
The drama centers on Oskar, a 10-year old boy (being played by unknown Thomas Horn) who loses his father (Hanks) in the Sept. 11 attacks and goes on a cathartic journey to deal with his loss. He scours New York for information relating to the lock-box key box left behind by his father and meets an assortment of people along the way -- each dealing with their own forms of grief and loss that connect and parallel his own.