Christopher Robin

Wow! Being "Benedict Cumberbatch-level" of star is obviously a thing now!

Did he say that? I missed that. And he has always had a bit of a habit of surreptitiously referencing potential projects. Like he joked about playing a pig once, which was obviously a reference to Andy Serkis' "Animal Farm" at the time (which I'd still like to see come to fruition). That will end up as reasonably child friendly and then there's still the Andy Serkis "Jungle Book", of course. Then there's "The Grinch" too, so not so short on child friendly really, but none of those are live action. The attraction of doing those, though, is that they take such little time, so it wouldn't surprise me if he does more. But I'm not sure that he would have made that child friendly comment if he was just talking about more of the same in that respect, when he's really not short of those.



So it wouldn't surprise me at all if he's at least in the frame for a live action adult Christopher Robin or something o that ilk anyway. Aside from that article reference, though, I'd probably have guessed at Colin Firth otherwise.



I presume they'll go for a fictional take on Christopher Robin, rather than some sort of version of the real one.

Ewan McGregor has been cast in the role.