U.S. filmmaker Taylor Hackford has signed on to direct "Tenn," a movie about late playwright Tennessee Williams. Williams was the author of such American stage classics "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,""The Glass Menagerie" and "A Streetcar Named Desire." He choked to death in 1983 at the age of 71.

U.S. filmmaker Taylor Hackford has signed on to direct "Tenn," a film about late playwright Tennessee Williams. Williams was the author of such American stage classics "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,""The Glass Menagerie" and "A Streetcar Named Desire." He choked to death in 1983 at the age of 71.