Geez Tom, you sure you want to put everything on the line for the lass that gave us "Connie & Carla"? A sequel to "Bonfire of the Vanities" might be a safer bet me thinks.

Still, Tom Hanks has agreed to front a new Nia Vardalos-written comedy that we all hope will be less "Connie" and more "Big Fat Greek Wedding". In addition, Vardalos has come up with an idea for a "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" sequel.

The Hanks vehicle, set up at Universal, is called "Talk of the Town". The Uni deal puts Vardalos back together with Playtone, where Hanks, partner Gary Goetzman and Rita Wilson produced the bigscreen adaptation of her one woman show "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."

Vardalos said she had resisted writing films for other thesps, but sparked to a "Talk of the Town" pitch that came from Hanks himself.

"Tom will play a man who is forced into a career change when he least expects it," Vardalos tells Variety.

Hanks and Goetzman will produce. Vardalos hasn't been asked to appear in the film.

Vardalos got the Revolution deal after the studio brought her the title of a pitch it bought years ago.

"I liked the title, and I wanted to explore the concept of this contrived holiday and what happens when romance is forced on us," Vardalos said.William Sherak will produce with his Blue Star partner Jason Schuman and his mother, Madeleine Sherak, who has her own My Bench Prods. shingle. He said Revolution liked the title but never got the project off the ground until it thought of the idea of putting Vardalos at the center of the romantic comedy.

Vardalos has also come up with a potential sequel for "Greek Wedding."

"I've understood the desire for a sequel, because I hear it all the time from my family and everyone I run into at a Starbucks," Vardalos said.