GREAT NEWS AS DISNEY HAVE FOUND THERE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN IN EWAN MCGREGOR!


Christopher Robin, Disney’s upcoming live-action film continuation of the Winnie The Pooh story, appears to have found its star in Ewan McGregor.
According to the Hollywood reporter, McGregor is in talks to headline the live-action film, taking on the title role of Christopher Robin, directly drawn from author A.A. Milne’s Winnie The Pooh stories. However, this particular Pooh project – not to be confused with this November’s A.A. Mile biopic Goodbye Christopher Robin – will see McGregor play an adult version of Christopher, stuck in an especially humdrum period in his life, focused on his career as a businessman and far-removed from his halcyon childhood days of imagination-fueled pastoral hijinks with anthropomorphic stuffed animals such as Pooh Bear, Tigger, Eeyore, Piglet and Rabbit.
Christopher Robin will be directed by Marc Forster. His resume to date includes high-profile action pictures such as 2013’s World War Z and 2008 James Bond sequel Quantum Of Solace, along with 2011 crime drama Machine Gun Preacher, 2006 surreal comedy Stranger Tthan Fiction and the 2001 drama Monster’s Ball, which famously yielded star Halle Berry a Best Actress Oscar win. However, Forster’s work on the 2004 biographically-based film Finding Neverland in which Johnny Depp played Peter Pan creator J.M. Barrie seems to be the genre offering that brought him to the table for Christopher Robin.
Interestingly, Christopher Robin will also reportedly see a script shakeup, with the recruitment of Hidden Figures and Mean Girls 2 scribe Allison Schroeder, who has been tapped to give the screenplay another rewrite after it was originally penned by Alex Ross Perry (Golden Exits) and later revised by Tom McCarthy (Spotlight), who has moved on to co-write/direct another Disney film project called Timmy Failure. 
Christopher Robin is still in early stages.

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