Hollywood Ink: Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock Hoping to Get Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Also in this morning's Hollywood Ink: fellow A-lister, Angelina Jolie, lines up her next film... Carey Mulligan and Bryan Cranston put it in Drive... the Ice Age guy goes live action... and more ahead.

· Just how many Academy Awards are Warner Bros. and Paramount hoping to win with Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close? Many. The studios are in negotiations with Oscar winners Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock to star in Oscar-winner Eric Roth's adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling novel. Oh, and three-time nominee Stephen Daldry is set to direct. The book follows Oskar, a nine-year-old boy who loses his father in the September 11 attacks. [ToH]

· Angelina Jolie is taking her major starpower to Bosnia. She'll headline a new film that takes place during the Bosnian War in the early '90s. "The film is a love story, not a political statement," said Jolie, answering your next question. No word on director, screenwriter, co-stars or title, but hopefully it's better than Beyond Borders. [Reuters]

· Here's a fun one: Carey Mulligan and Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston are negotiating to co-star with previously cast Ryan Gosling in Drive, from director Nicolas Winding Refn. Gosling plays a stunt driver-cum-getaway driver who winds up on the run when a bank heist goes wrong. Mulligan would co-star as an ex-con's girlfriend who winds up in his car, and let's just assume Cranston plays some variation on Walter White. Any similiarities between Drive and the 1994 Charlie Sheen/Kristy Swanson film, The Chase, are purely coincidental. [THR/Risky Business]

· Chris Wedge -- who you might know as the director of Ice Age and the voice of Scrat from that film -- will produce, co-write and possibly direct an adaptation of Lives of Monster Dogs. The novel "revolves around a group of soldier dogs genetically engineered by mad Prussian scientists hiding in a Canadian village. The hyper-intelligent dogs, who walk erect and use voice boxes to communicate, revolt against their masters and, dressed in 19th century formal wear, show up in modern New York." Naturally, this will be a live-action affair. [THR/Heat Vision]

· From dogs to cats. Stephen Lindsey and Luis Ugaz are adapting David Dosa's bestselling non-fiction book Making the Rounds With Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat, about a nursing home cat that accurately predicts which resident will die next. Feline Destination, anyone? [Variety]