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STILL MORE REASONS TO LOOK FORWARD TO FALL 2006: Aaron Sorkin's been busy enough with plays and TV series that he hasn't done any credited film writing since TNT perennial The American President. However, it looks like his screenplay for Charlie Wilson's War is finally moving forward, with an interesting group of folks involved--Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts as the leads, and Mike Nichols directing. A Sorkin action-thriller flick about Middle East politics could be very interesting, and this could be Syriana, except, y'know, not confusing and messy. The tricky part is with Roberts' theatre comittments and Hanks' promotional commitments, in order to arrive for Oscar consideration (which you know would be part of the plan), it would have to be shot and edited on an express basis, much like Munich was this year, so we may have to wait till 2007.