Paul King, the maestro behind Paddington and Wonka, has been tapped to direct a brand new Prince Charming film for Disney.
Paul King appears to have that magic contact for family-friendly motion pictures, and Deadline stories that Disney has recruited the director to helm a brand new Prince Charming film.
Whereas many Disney motion pictures function a Prince Charming-type character, the precise Prince Charming appeared in Cinderella as a love curiosity to the title character. Nevertheless, based on insiders, this Prince Charming film “is not going to particularly be linked to Cinderella.” Simon Barnaby and Jon Croker are set to co-write the script alongside King.
Though Paul King directed the primary two Paddington motion pictures, he didn’t return for Paddington in Peru as he made the difficult choice to helm Wonka as an alternative. “It was actually tough, as a result of I’d spent eight years with the bear and I felt such unimaginable love for him,” King stated. “He’s an animated character, and the design and the love that went into each single follicle was labor intensive and finished with such coronary heart. So it’s sort of like sending your child off to highschool and going, ‘I hope you’ll be okay!’ However I additionally understand it was the precise factor to do.“
Paul King added that “as a result of there’s a lot Paddington supply materials, you possibly can make 50 Paddington motion pictures. I’d be 100 years previous and nonetheless doing Paddington.” If there was solely sufficient supply materials to make two or three movies, King stated that issues might need been completely different, however he was “actually happy” with the place they left Paddington after the second film and that it was “time to let go and provides someone else a shot.“
Paddington in Peru “follows Paddington and the Brown household as they go to Aunt Lucy in Peru. An exhilarating journey ensues when a thriller plunges them into an surprising journey by means of the Amazon rainforest and to the mountain peaks of Peru.” Ben Whishaw returns to voice Paddington, with Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Madeleine Harris, Samuel Joslin, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas, and Imelda Staunton rounding out the forged.
Paddington in Peru will debut within the U.Okay. on November eighth, adopted by a U.S. launch on January seventeenth.
