SUBMITTED BY Scooby

July 17, 2003 — The Hollywood Reporter reports that Stanley Tucci has joined the cast of the Steven Spielberg directed Terminal. That cast already includes Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Chi McBride. Filming starts in September in Los Angeles.

Hanks stars as a Balkan immigrant who makes an airport transit lounge his home after he learns that the borders of his war-torn nation have been blurred, voiding his passport and leaving him without a country. Making friends among the airport employees in the United States, including a baggage handler (McBride), he falls in love with a flight attendant (Zeta-Jones), which prompts his escape a year later.

Tucci will play a Immigration and Naturalization Service Representative.