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 studies that Disney has recruited the director to helm a brand new Prince Charming film.
Whereas many Disney motion pictures characteristic a Prince Charming-type character, the precise Prince Charming appeared in Cinderella as a love curiosity to the title character. Nonetheless, based on insiders, this Prince Charming film “will not specifically 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 tough alternative to helm Wonka as an alternative. “It was really difficult, because I’d spent eight years with the bear and I felt such incredible love for him,” King mentioned. “He’s an animated character, and the design and the love that went into each single follicle was labor intensive and performed with such coronary heart. So it’s sort of like sending your child off to high school and going, ‘I hope you’ll be okay!’ However I additionally comprehend it was the proper factor to do.“
Paul King added that “because there’s so much Paddington source material, you could make 50 Paddington movies. I’d be a hundred years old and still doing Paddington.” If there was solely sufficient supply materials to make two or three movies, King mentioned that issues might need been totally different, however he was “really pleased” with the place they left Paddington after the second film and that it was “time to let go and provides any person else a shot.“
Paddington in Peru “follows Paddington and the Brown family as they visit Aunt Lucy in Peru. A thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through 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 solid.
Paddington in Peru will debut within the U.Ok. on November eighth, adopted by a U.S. launch on January seventeenth.
