Alan Ball screenplay gets rewrite
BY Advocate.com Editors
November 14 2002 1:00 AM ET
Variety reports that Alan Ball's screenplay for Downtown, a period drama for Playtone Pictures, is being rewritten by Scott Frank (Out of Sight). It is hoped that the film will reteam Tom Hanks, who would play a gay detective in the 1960s, with his Apollo 13 director, Ron Howard.
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