The first pictures of the title character in Paddington Bear, based on the children’s story by Michael Bond, have arrived giving you your first look at the new-look Paddington from the forthcoming film, hitting theaters in the UK on November 28 and here in the States on December 25.
Colin Firth will voice the bear as the film stars Nicole Kidman, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi and Julie Walters.
The story follows the comic misadventures of Paddington, a young Peruvian bear with a passion for all things British who travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he begins to realize that city life is not all he had imagined – until he meets the kindly Brown family who read the label around his neck — “Please look after this bear. Thank you.” — and offer him a temporary haven. It looks as though his luck has changed until this rarest of bears catches the eye of a museum taxidermist (Kidman)…
Check out the second picture directly below. [Telegraph]
