“Trainspotting” star Kelly Macdonald joins “Goodbye Christopher Robin”June 25, 2016 - 17:34 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Boardwalk Empire star Kelly Macdonald has joined Goodbye Christopher Robin, the film about children's author A. A. Milne, The Hollywood Reporter reveals. Macdonald joins Domhnall Gleeson, who will play the famed author. The story centers on Milne's relationship with his son Christopher Robin, whose toys inspired the magical characters in Winnie the Pooh. Margot Robbie is attached to play Christopher Robin's mother, Daphne, while Macdonald will play his nanny, Olive. The story sees the family swept up in the international success of the books, the tales bringing hope and comfort to England after WWI. Simon Curtis (Woman in Gold, My Week With Marilyn) is directing the biopic from a script by Frank Cottrell Boyce and Simon Vaughan. Damian Jones and Steve Christian are producing. Fox Searchlight is handling the project through its deal with Jones. Searchlight's David Greenbaum, Matthew Greenfield and Katie Goodson-Thomas are overseeing. Scottish actress Macdonald starred in HBO’s series Boardwalk Empire opposite Steve Buscemi. She also voiced the lead character Merida in Pixar’s animated film Brave, and was seen in Netflix’s recent comedy Special Correspondents, written and directed by Ricky Gervais. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Turkey extends military presence in Azerbaijan The Turkish parliament has adopted a bill submitted by Recep Tayyip Erdogan to extend the mandate of Turkish troops. Russia to begin assessing migrant workers' speaking skills Rosobrnadzor is planning to change the Russian language exam for migrant workers and include an assessment of speaking skills Armenian, Saudi Foreign Minister meet in Riyadh The two commended the positive dynamics of the development of political dialogue between Armenia and Saudi Arabia Pashinyan: Azerbaijan’s proximity shouldn’t worry border residents At the same time, he said that he “does not guarantee [the security of villagers] one hundred percent”. |