No Extra Laborious Stares: ‘Paddington 3’ Is Lastly, Formally Taking place

Paddington, mensch of a bear that he’s, has some excellent news to brighten your (and Aunt Lucy’s) Monday morning:

Paddington in Peru, the third movie within the Paddington collection and first since 2017’s modern-day masterpiece Paddington 2, will start filming in July. “It has been six years for the reason that second movie within the hit franchise and the brown bear is maintaining plot particulars for the third installment underneath his well-known crimson hat for now,” Deadline stories, “however because the title suggests, the film will see Paddington entering into sticky conditions in ‘deepest, darkest Peru,’ his nation of delivery.” The stickiness is attributable to marmalade, naturally.

Paddington and Paddington 2 director Paul King has a co-story by credit score with Simon Farnaby and Mark Burton, whereas the screenplay was written by Burton, Jon Foster, and James Lamont. Dougal Wilson steps in as director.

As for the forged, nicely, nobody has been introduced but, not even Ben Whishaw, though presumably he’ll return because the voice of Paddington. The true query is: who will play the villain? It was Nicole Kidman in Paddington and Hugh Grant, in an Oscar-worthy performance, in Paddington 2. Does it make an excessive amount of sense to demand Florence Pugh? Or she will play Paddington’s BFF, and they are often variety and well mannered collectively. That will make the world proper.

(By way of Deadline)