Paddington’s Back: Threequel ‘Paddington In Peru’ Will Begin Filming In July
03.04.2023 - 14:09
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EXCLUSIVE: Make that a triple marmalade sandwich. Long-awaited movie threequel Paddington In Peru is on course to start production on July 24, we can reveal.
It has been six years since the second film in the hit franchise and the brown bear is keeping plot details for the third instalment under his famous red hat for now, but as the title suggests, the movie will see Paddington getting into sticky situations in “deepest, darkest Peru”, his country of birth.
The third film will reunite producer Studiocanal, which is once again fully financing, with Heyday, producers of the first two movies as well as the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts movies.
Story comes from Paddington 1 & 2 collaborators Paul King, Simon Farnaby and Mark Burton with a screenplay by Burton, Jon Foster and James Lamont. As previously announced, music videos and commercials director Dougal Wilson is making his feature debut.
Producers are David Heyman and Rosie Alison with Rob Silva as co-producer while execs include Paul King, Tim Wellspring, Jeffrey Clifford, Anna Marsh and Ron Halpern.
The two previous films scored more than $500M between them at the box office and both were BAFTA-nominated.
We assume Ben Whishaw will be back to voice Paddington but no official word on that yet. We hear it will be a combination of returning and new cast. Key talent on both movies has included Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Imelda Staunton and Michael Gambon.
Only last week, Florence Pugh told the BBC during an interview that she’d love to do a Paddington movie, and the Studiocanal twitter feed was most recently having Paddington fun with with Harry Styles. So, you never know…
Last time we saw Paddington he was memorably enjoying tea with the late