Felicity Jones, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Patrick Stewart & Freddie Highmore Join Tomer Eshed’s Dragon Rider — Cannes
09 May 2018

‘Rogue One’ star Felicity Jones, ‘Love Actually’s’ Thomas Brodie-Sangster, ‘Star Trek’s Patrick Stewart and ‘Bates Motel’s’ Freddie Highmore have joined Tomer Eshed’s ‘Dragon Rider’.

The quartet will work alongside previously announced actors Meera Syal (‘Doctor Strange’), Sanjeev Bhaskar (‘Absolutely Anything’) and Nonso Anozie (‘Cinderella’) in the animated adaptation of Cornelia Funke’s novel.

It is being sold at Cannes by Timeless Films and is produced by Constantin Film’s Martin Moszkowicz and Oliver Berben together with the co-producers Cyborn and RiseFX along with the team of Lumatic. The film is due to be delivered fall 2019.

Written by Johnny Smith (‘Gnomeo & Juliet’), Dragon Rider trails an unlikely trio of heroes; young silver dragon Firedrake (Brodie-Sangster), Sorrel (Jones) the mountain brownie and a boy called Ben (Highmore) as they embark on an epic adventure and battle against a vicious, dragon-killing machine called Nettlebrand (Stewart) to ?nd the ‘Rim of Heaven’.

“Felicity, Thomas, Patrick, Freddie, Meera, Sanjeev and Nonso, are extraordinary actors whose unique voices will bring to life our wonderful animated characters. Director Tomer Eshed is creating an amazing visual world full of dragons and magical creatures and we’re delighted to be re-uniting with Constantin Film, a production and distribution powerhouse to deliver another hit animated, family film to buyers” said Timeless Films Chairman and CEO, Ralph Kamp.

Constantin Film CEO Martin Moszkowicz added, “I am thrilled to see so many great artists joining Tomer Eshed and his creative team for the next outstanding animated family film event from Constantin Film.”

Brodie Sangster is represented by Curtis Brown Group, WME and Calypso Voices, Jones by Independent Talent Group, WME and AdVoice, Stewart by ICM Partners, Independent Talent Group and AdVoice and Highmore is represented by ARG and UTA.

Peter White
Deadline Hollywood