The upcoming animated feature film The Amazing Maurice will
premiere in cinemas and on Sky Cinema in the UK on Friday 16th December, it has
been confirmed today. The announcement comes alongside the reveal of the
official poster, on the eve of a panel featuring cast and creatives from the
movie at MCM Comic Con in London tomorrow. The movie is based on the Carnegie
medal-winning novel The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents by Sir Terry
Pratchett, originally published in 2001.
In The Amazing Maurice, a Sky Original, Maurice is a
streetwise ginger cat who comes up with a money-making scam by befriending a
group of self-taught talking rats. When Maurice and the rodents reach the
stricken town of Bad Blintz, they meet a bookworm called Malicia and their
little con soon goes down the drain.
This animated family film is based on the wildly popular Discworld
® novels and will star Hugh Laurie (Avenue 5) as Maurice, Emilia Clarke (Game
of Thrones) as Malicia, David Thewlis (Wonder Woman) as Boss Man, Himesh Patel
(Yesterday) as Keith, Gemma Arterton (The King’s Man) as Peaches, Hugh
Bonneville (Downton Abbey) as The Mayor, David Tennant (Doctor Who) as
Dangerous Beans, Ariyon Bakare (His Dark Materials) as Darktan, Rob Brydon
(Roald & Beatrix: The Tale of the Curious Mouse) as The Pied Piper, Julie
Atherton (Avenue Q) as Nourishing and YouTuber Joe Sugg as Sardines.
The film is
co-produced by Sky, Ulysses Filmproduktion and Cantilever Media in partnership
with Global Screen, with animation studios Studio Rakete (Hamburg) and Red Star
Animation (Sheffield). The film has the full support of the Terry Pratchett
estate and is produced in association with Narrativia. Producers are Julia
Stuart (Sky), Emely Christians (Ulysses), Andrew Baker and Robert Chandler
(Cantilever Media) and Rob Wilkins (Narrativia). The Film is directed by Toby
Genkel, co-director is Florian Westermann, from a screenplay by Terry Rossio.
The Amazing Maurice
is currently scheduled to release in the USA, Australia and New Zealand in
January 2023.
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