Antonio Banderas, Rachel Zegler, Olivia Colman, and Emily Mortimer are in talks to star in the long-awaited movie "Paddington In Peru", the third installment in the critically-acclaimed "Paddington" franchise.
They will join fan favorites Ben Whishaw and Hugh Bonneville, who are set to return.
Colman will play The Reverend Mother, described as a blithe and sunny guitar-playing nun who runs the Home for Retired Bears. Banderas portrays Hunter Cabot, a dashing and intrepid riverboat captain who offers to help the Brown family on their Peruvian adventure. His daughter, Gina Cabot, will be played by Rachel Zegler. Mortimer joins the Brown family as Mrs. Brown, replacing Sally Hawkins, who portrayed the character in "Paddington" and "Paddington 2".
Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas, Rachel Zegler, and Emily Mortimer.
Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Madeleine Harris, Samuel Joslin, and Imelda Staunton are also in talks with Studiocanal and producer David Heyman to return for the movie.
The story comes from Paddington 1 & 2 collaborators Paul King, Simon Farnaby, and Mark Burton with a screenplay by Burton, Jon Foster, and James Lamont. Music videos and commercials director Dougal Wilson is making his feature debut.
It has been six years since the second movie in the hit franchise. "Paddington in Peru" sees the bear embark on a new adventure that will take him from Windsor Gardens to Peru.
The threequel will follow Paddington as he returns to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru.
Studiocanal is fully backing the movie and will release Paddington in Peru in the UK, France, Germany, Benelux, Australia/New Zealand, and Poland. Sony Pictures holds rights for the rest of the world, excluding Russia, China, and Japan.
The threequel is being produced by Heyman and Rosie Alison with Rob Silva as co-producer. Paul King, Tim Wellspring, Jeffrey Clifford, Anna Marsh, Ron Halpern, and Dan MacRae are EPs.
The two previous movies scored more than $500M between them at the box office and both were BAFTA-nominated.
Principal photography will begin on July 24 and will film in the UK, Peru, and Colombia.
Paddington Bear was created by Michael Bond and named after the London station where he was found.
The bear first appeared in 1958 in the book "A Bear Called Paddington", which centered around how he packed off from dark Peru and made his way to Britain where he was adopted by the Brown family.
Bond passed away in 2017 and the second movie was dedicated to him.
A number of the film collaborators were also behind a popular 2019 kids' TV show "The Adventures of Paddington", which aired on Nickelodeon and is now on Netflix.
The last time viewers saw Paddington he was memorably enjoying tea with the late Queen Elizabeth II.
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