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EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has taken U.S. to nan Neal Street and Elysian Film Group’s fantasy-adventure The Magic Faraway Tree following its adjacent $11M astatine nan UK container agency aft 11 days successful release. Vertical has schedule nan pic for a theatrical merchandise connected Aug. 21.
Post-pandemic, Magic Faraway Tree is nan astir successful live-action UK family movie aft Paddington successful Peru and nan Roald Dahl franchises (Wonka and Matilda).
The Simon Farnaby written (Wonka, Paddington 2), Ben Gregor directed film(Britannia, Cuckoo, Black Ops, Fatherhood), and stars 2x Oscar nominee Andrew Garfield (We Live successful Time), Golden Globe and Emmy Award victor Claire Foy (H is for Hawk), Emmy Award victor Nonso Anozie (Sweet Tooth), BAFTA and SAG Award nominee Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton), Golden Globe and Emmy Award victor Jessica Gunning (Baby Reindeer), BAFTA Award victor Jennifer Saunders, and Golden Globe Award nominee Rebecca Ferguson (Dune franchise).
Adapted from Enid Blyton’s beloved classical caller of nan aforesaid name, The Magic Faraway Tree follows Polly (Foy), Tim (Garfield), and their 3 children – a modern family forced to relocate to nan distant English countryside. As they accommodate to their caller lives, nan children observe a magical character and its bonzer and eccentric residents, including treasured characters Moonface (Anozie), Silky (Coughlan), Dame Washalot (Gunning), and Saucepan Man (Dustin Demri-Burns). At nan apical of nan tree, they are transported to spectacular, fantastical lands, and done nan joys and challenges of their adventures, nan family learns to reconnect and worth each different for nan first clip successful years.
“We’ve been overwhelmed by nan awesome consequence that nan movie has had successful nan UK. Ben’s superb direction, coupled pinch Simon’s fabulous screenplay and our all-star formed person drawn successful a wide family assemblage looking for nan wit and wonderment which nan movie provides. We’re each thrilled to beryllium partnering pinch Vertical and delighted to beryllium sharing nan movie pinch US audiences this summer,” said shaper Pippa Harris, caller from nan worldwide occurrence of Neal Street’s astir caller film, nan Oscar-winning movie Hamnet.
“With Enid Blyton’s beloved communicative arsenic its foundation, Simon’s bonzer script, and a superb formed of adults and children led by Andrew and Claire, The Magic Faraway Tree offers thing genuinely typical for audiences of each ages,” added Vertical Partner Peter Jarowey. “Ben has crafted a movie that captures nan wonderment of puerility successful a measurement that feels magical, timeless, and made for nan large screen. We can’t hold for U.S. audiences to autumn nether its spell.”
Fully-financed by Ashland Hill Media Finance, pinch Palisades Park Pictures handling world sales, nan movie was produced by Pippa Harris, Nicolas Brown, Danny Perkins and Jane Hooks, co-produced by Melanie Davis, and executive produced by Tamara Birkemoe, Michael Cornelius, Jacqueline de Croy, Simon Williams, Joe Simpson, Merrick Stoller, Andy Wang and Matthew E. Chausse. Additional below-the-line talent includes head of photography Zac Nicholson (One Life), accumulation designer Alexandra Walker (This Beautiful Fantastic), Emmy Award-winning editor Gary Dollner (Fleabag), costume designer Ann Maskrey (The Hobbit trilogy) and Oscar nominee hairsbreadth & make-up designer Karen Hartley-Thomas (Golda), pinch casting by Lucinda Syson (Aquaman and nan Lost Kingdom) and Natasha Vincent (The Diplomat) and euphony by Isabella Summers (Lisa Frankenstein).
The woody was negotiated by Jarowey and SVP of Acquisitions Tony Piantedosi connected behalf of Vertical and by CAA Media Finance connected behalf of nan filmmakers.
