Disney offers a peek behind the scenes at the upcoming live-action adventure film, Christopher Robin, with a new minute and a half video featuring Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, songwriter Richard M. Sherman, and director Marc Forster. In the new video, Ewan McGregor shares that he’s excited to be involved in this new take on the classic Winnie the Pooh tale.
McGregor, most recently seen playing twins in FX’s critically acclaimed Fargo, thinks audiences will be charmed by the film. “We’ll come out the better for it having seen it, I think.”
“Winnie the Pooh comes back to him at a difficult time in his life,” explains McGregor who plays the title role. “He sort of speaks a lot of truth – Pooh.”
“These are the characters that my generation, my parents’ generation, and now this generation are growing up with,” says Hayley Atwell. She adds, “This is a charming story of a man finding his home again and finding that inner child.”
The short video arrived the same day Disney opened advance ticket sales for Christopher Robin. The film will be released in theaters on August 3, 2018.
The live-action cast includes Ewan McGregor as Christopher Robin, Hayley Atwell (Agent Carter) as his wife Evelyn; Bronte Carmichael (Darkest Hour) as his daughter Madeline; and Mark Gatiss (Game of Thrones) as Keith Winslow, Robin’s boss. The actors lending their voices to the CG animals include Jim Cummings as Winnie the Pooh, Chris O’Dowd (The Cloverfield Paradox) as Tigger, Brad Garrett (Fargo) as Eeyore, Toby Jones (Wayward Pines) as Owl, Nick Mohammed (Uncle) as Piglet, Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who) as Rabbit, and Sophie Okonedo (The Hollow Crown) as Kanga.
Marc Forster directed from a screenplay by Alex Ross Perry and Allison Schroeder, based on the characters created by A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard. Brigham Taylor and Kristin Burr produced, and Renée Wolfe and Jeremy Johns served as executive producers.
The Plot: In Disney’s heartwarming live action adventure, the young boy who shared countless adventures with his stuffed animal friends in the Hundred Acre Wood has grown up and lost sight of what’s important in life. Now it is up to his childhood friends to venture into our world and help Christopher Robin rediscover the joys of family life, the value of friendship and to appreciate the simple pleasure in life once again.
