The Magic Faraway Tree Adaptation Gets Even More Star-Studded

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The Magic Faraway Tree Adaptation Gets Even More Star-Studded
Into the woods! Into the woods!


By Molly Templeton
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Published on June 6, 2024



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Last month, it was announced that Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy will star in The Magical Faraway Tree , a film adaptation of Enid Blyton’s extremely popular, very British children’s novels. Garfield and Foy play the parents of a trio of children who find, in the woods behind their home, a magical tree and an enchanted wood.



Now, the film has added a trio of curently-very-hot stars to the cast: Bridgerton ’s Nicola Coughlan (above); Sweet Tooth ’s Nonso Anozie; and Baby Reindeer breakout star Jessica Gunning. Coughlan plays a fairy, Silky; Anozie is Moonface; and Gunning plays Dame Washalot.



According to Deadline , they’re also joined by Lenny Henry ( The Sandman ), Michael Palin ( Monty Pytho n), and Simon Russell Beale ( Penny Dreadful ) as “a trio of mystical wise men from the Land of Know-Alls.” And three more delightfully named characters have also been cast: the Saucepan Man will be played by Dustin Demri-Burns ( The Great ); Mr. Oom Boom by Mark Heap ( Renegade Nell ); and Mr. Watzisname by Oliver Chris ( Foundation ).



Ben Gregor ( Britannia ) directs the adaptation, which has a screenplay by Simon Farnaby, whose resume includes epic highs ( Paddington 2 ) and questionable lows ( Wonka ). In their “contemporary reboot” of the book series, Deadline noted earlier this year , “the three protagonists are uprooted from their hi-tech home in an ultra-modern London Nine Elms-Battersea Power Station-style development to a ramshackle barn in the English countryside without an internet connection.”



No release date has been announced, nor we do know, yet, who will be playing the three kids.[end-mark]
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