Claire Foy won an Emmy Award in 2021 for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for reprising her role as Queen Elizabeth on The Crown and she is eligible for the same award this year.
03.05.2024 - 12:23 / variety.com
Alex Ritman Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy have joined the cast of magical family adventure feature “The Magic Faraway Tree,” based on Enid Blyton’s beloved children’s classic. The film — from Neal Street Productions, Elysian Film Group and Ashland Hill Media Finance — has been adapted by BAFTA winner Simon Farnaby (“Wonka” and “Paddington 2”) and will be directed by Ben Gregor (“Britannia,” “Cuckoo”). Palisades Park Pictures are handling sales in Cannes.
Principal photography will begin in June, with additional casting currently underway. Based on “The Faraway Tree” series of novels for children, “The Magic Faraway Tree” follows Polly (Foy) and Tim (Garfield) and their children Beth, Joe and Fran — a modern family who find themselves forced to relocate to the remote English countryside. Soon after the family’s arrival in the countryside, the children discover a magical tree and its extraordinary and eccentric residents including treasured characters Moonface, Silky, Dame Washalot and Saucepan Man.
At the top of the tree, they are transported to spectacular and fantastical lands and, through the joys and challenges of their adventures, the family learn to reconnect and value each other for the first time in years. “To have two actors of the quality of Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy is a dream for any screenwriter,” Farnaby said. “I have long admired their warmth, wit and lightness of touch.
Claire Foy won an Emmy Award in 2021 for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for reprising her role as Queen Elizabeth on The Crown and she is eligible for the same award this year.
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor “The Crown” can only play a pair of Queens at the Emmys. Emmy winner Olivia Colman, who portrayed Queen Elizabeth in the series finale episode of Netflix‘s monarchy drama, is not eligible to submit in the guest drama actress race by only a few seconds.
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