I’m not sure if it’s going to be titled Paddington or Paddington Bear, as I’ve seen it both ways, but the film will be based on Michael Bond’s classic children’s character that first appeared all the way back in 1958 and went on to be featured in 20 books.
The story was inspired when Bond saw a single teddy bear for sale on a shelf in a London store near Paddington Station on Christmas Eve. He bought it for his wife and an idea for a story was born. A story of a stuffed bear named Paddington found at the Paddington Railway Station in London by the Brown family. A note attached to his coat read “Please look after this bear. Thank you.” The family took the bear home and the stories got underway.
In the live-action version Colin Firth will voice the bear as the story finds him battling a taxidermist, voiced by Firth’s The Railway Man love interest, Nicole Kidman who offered up the following image from the set on her Facebook page.
Joining Firth and Kidman in the film are Julie Walters, Sally Hawkins, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Bonneville, Samuel Joslin and Madeleine Harris with Paul King directing.
Check out the picture below. I expect this one will either be a late 2014 or 2015 release.
[Sources: Wikipedia / The Guardian / Nicole Kidman]
