Spider-Man star Tom Holland has been cast in a movie called The Lincoln Highway, but there's major uncertainty surrounding the production amid Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros.
Page Six reports that Christopher Storer has been hired to direct Warner Bros.'s big-screen adaptation of Amor Towles' New York Times-betselling novel The Lincoln Highway, with Holland as the star, but Paramount executives Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy decided not to officially greenlight the project because it was expected to have a $30 million to $40 million budget.
Paramount is still attached, but Storer and producer David Heyman have reportedly been given the go-ahead to shop The Lincoln Highway around to different studios, according to a Page Six source. Other studios are very interested in making the film, with an anonymous studio executive saying that Storer is "a filmmaker everyone wants to work with."
Until the Paramount-Warner Bros. deal closes, The Lincoln Highway remains in a state of development purgatory. July appears to be the estimated month when the deal will be made official, as the two companies continue to go through various legal, financial and regulatory hurdles.
If it takes longer than mid-summer, though, The Lincoln Highway won't be the only project that faces this type of uncertainty; in fact, another executive expected "we'll be seeing a lot more of this" if the acquisition process gets dragged out.
Storer is the creator, co-showrunner and an executive producer on the hugely successful Hulu dramedy The Bear, which debuted in 2022 and just released a surprise episode in early May. The Bear season 5, which has been announced as the final installment, premieres June 25 with stars Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Ayo Edebiri.
Over the years, the series has won several Emmys (including Outstanding Comedy Series), Golden Globes, SAG Awards and Critics' Choice Awards, and has an average critic score on Rotten Tomatoes of 93%.
Holland, meanwhile, has a busy 2026 in the coming months. After starring as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in three Marvel Cinematic Universe films, the actor is reprising the role for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which comes out in July and centers on the aftermath of the shocking twist from the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home.
That same month (two weeks prior, to be exact), Holland will be starring in another highly anticipated film, Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey, which boasts a star-studded cast that includes Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong'o, Zendaya, Charlize Theron and Elliot Page.
If Christopher Storer and Tom Holland's The Lincoln Highway, which centers on two brothers from the Midwest who take a road trip, gets past its purgatory status, then the filmmaker and actor will be adapting the first full-length novel that Towles wrote after publishing the bestselling book A Gentleman in Moscow, which was turned into a Paramount+ series in 2024.
Birthdate June 1, 1996
Birthplace Kingston upon Thames, London, England
First On-Screen Role The Impossible
Height 5 feet 8 inches
Professions Actor, Dancer
English (US) ·