"Road to Perdition" star Tom Hanks is keeping his dance card filled.

Variety reports that the star, 46, will re-team with his "Forrest Gump" and "Cast Away" director, Robert Zemeckis, for "Polar Express," and then will work with the Coen Brothers ("Fargo") on a remake of the classic 1955 British black comedy "The Ladykillers," which originally starred Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers.

"Polar Express," due to start shooting next February for a Christmas 2004 release, is based on the popular picture book by Chris Van Allsburg about a boy who visits Santa at the North Pole, says Variety. Hanks is to play the conductor on a magical train that takes the tot there. (Computerized special effects are expected to figure in heavily.)

As for "The Ladykillers," Joel and Ethan Coen have reset the tale in the American South, reveals the trade paper, though the plot still concerns a hilariously indestructible old landlady who rents out rooms to a group of bad guys.

Hanks, meanwhile, along with his "Saving Private Ryan" director Steven Spielberg, picked up an Emmy on Sunday night for producing the Outstanding Miniseries "Band of Brothers," about World War II's Easy Company. Hanks also presented Oprah Winfrey with the inaugural Bob Hope Humanitarian Award.