Date 11/05/2017 - News People
'Downtown Abbey' actor Hugh Bonneville will portray children's author, Roald Dahl in a new biopic. Dahl created unforgettable novels including 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' and 'James and the Giant Peach'. The new film will be co-produced by Atticus Pictures and Goldcrest Films. It is set to look at the author's marriage to actress Patricia Neal and it will move between New York, England and Los Angeles in 1960s - a time when the writer struggled to write. Elliot Jenkins, of Atticus Pictures, told Variety: "Personally I can't imagine anyone better than Hugh Bonneville to give the ambivalent nature of Roald Dahl's life. "He was such a man of wounded parts below his polished veneer of self-confidence."
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