Fresh off a banner year that saw him appear in the acclaimed indies Eighth Grade and Vox Lux, up-and-coming actor Fred Hechinger is set to join Tom Hanks in Paul Greengrass’ period film News of the World, Collider has exclusively learned. Sets in the days before the Civil War, News of the World stars Hanks as Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, who travels from town to town reading the news to locals, who would otherwise not know what is going on in the world. A set of circumstances lead him to be tasked with escorting an ornery young girl (…