After directing the first two installments of both the Shrek and Chronicles of Narnia franchises, director Andrew Adamson is venturing into more mature territory for his next project. Deadline reports the filmmaker will both be writing and directing an adaptation of Lloys Jones' novel Mister Pip with Hugh Laurie ("House M.D.") as the star. The story follows Mr. Watts (Laurie), the last white man left on the war-torn island of Bougainville. Asked to open a school there, he reads the kids his favorite novel, Great Expectations and bonds with them over the book, which sheds some perspective on their own difficult lives.
Laurie has provided his voice to films like Monsters vs. Aliens and Hop, but we rarely see him in live-action on the big screen. He's supposed to appear in The Oranges which may or may not come out this year, but his schedule on ...
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