They’re our favourite rom-com couple. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, the on-screen duo famous for romantic classics Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail, look set to reunite in a new film.
But this time around Meg Ryan’s role will be off-screen, making her directorial debut with an adaptation of William Saroyan’s classic 1943 novel The Human Comedy. A Word War II coming-of-age story about life on the home front, Ithaca, will be a far cry from the light-hearted love stories of their previous collaborations.
But if Tom Hanks agrees to play a cameo role in the film, it will be the fourth time the pair have teamed up.
We’ve pulled together some of our favourite scenes from their previous collaborations.
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan may reunite for another film.
The pair last teamed up in 1998 for the classic romantic comedy, You’ve Got Mail.
Meg Ryan’s character, Kathleen Kelly, learns that Tom Hanks’ character is Joe Fox – the owner of a chain of “mega” book stores that threatens to drive her independent store out of business.
The pair starred in Sleepless in Seattle in 1993.
Annie Reed (Meg Ryan), is a hopeless romantic and already engaged, but she feels there is something missing from her relationship.
One night she hears on a talk radio show Jonah, the son of Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks), who wants his father to find a new wife after she died from cancer.
Sam reluctantly speaks on the radio and hundreds of women hear the program and write to him.
Inspired by the film An Affair to Remember, Annie impulsively writes a letter suggesting that Sam meet her on top of the Empire State Building on Valentine’s Day.
It all gets a little complicated, but the film has one of the all-time best rom-com endings.
The final scene in You’ve Got Mail is another one of our favourites.
The pair have a much more fiery relationship in You’ve Got Mail and much more screen time together.
Tom Hanks is perfect for romantic comedies but his versatility as an actor has prevented him from being typecast.
Meg Ryan has made the switch to an off-camera role, taking on her first film as director.
A lush final scene in a New York public garden.
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