Child star makes a comeback
2005-08-02 12:58
Los Angeles - Oscar-nominated US child star Haley Joel Osment is returning to the big screen after a two-year break to star in a coming-of-age movie titled Home of the Giants, industry press said on Monday.
The star of the hit ghost movie The Sixth Sense, now 17, will play a teenager who idolised a basketball star in a small Midwestern US town in the independent movie to be directed by Rusty Gorman.
Production is scheduled to begin on the film in the next two months in the US state of North Carolina, according to entertainment industry bible Hollywood Reporter.
Osment was nominated for an Academy Award for his spooky role as a child who could see spirits in 1999's The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis.
He also had leading roles in the film Pay It Forward and in Steven Spielberg's AI Artificial Intelligence.
His most recent role was in 2003's Secondhand Lions, opposite Robert Duvall and Michael Caine.
- AFP