Jordans Rubicon Group Holding (RGH) has teamed up with Classic Media, a media company with a portfolio of some of the worlds leading family entertainment brands to announce that Postman Pat will be making his big screen debut in Postman Pat: The Movie You Know Youre the One. The film will be released in […]
Jordans Rubicon Group Holding (RGH) has teamed up with Classic Media, a media company with a portfolio of some of the worlds leading family entertainment brands to announce that Postman Pat will be making his big screen debut in Postman Pat: The Movie You Know Youre the One.
The film will be released in CG 3D Stereoscopic in time to celebrate Postman Pats 30th birthday.
The voice cast will be led by actor Stephen Mangan (Episodes, Green Wing, Dirk Gently) as Postman Pat. Academy Award and BAFTA Award Winner Jim Broadbent (Iris, Moulin Rouge!), Rupert Grint, who achieved international fame as Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter film series, and David Tennant (Doctor Who, Harry Potter), who will join Stephen in bringing the world of Postman Pat to life on the big screen.
The film finds Pat, everyones favourite postman, coming face-to-face with the temptations of money, status and a shiny new suit when he enters a national TV talent show competition that threatens to tear him away from his hometown of Greendale and the friends he loves. What happens when kindness meets selfishness? When local fame meets global notoriety? A nice cup of tea is kicked aside by a frappacappucino? Pat is set to find out as he falls for the age old temptation of the grass being greener
The movie will be directed by Mike Disa (Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil) from a screenplay co-written by the award-winning Kim Fuller (Spice World, High Heels & Low Lifes) and Annika Bluhm, the long-time producer of the Postman Pat television series. The film is being produced by RGHs Robert Anich and Miles Horst and Classic Medias Ceri Barnes and Annika Bluhm, with Rubicons Randa Ayoubi and David Corbett and Classic Medias Eric Ellenbogen and Doug Schwalbe serving as executive producers.
Postman Pat: The Movie You Know Youre the One begins production this month and heads to cinemas Spring 2013. Ralph Kamps Timeless Films is managing worldwide sales with Icon Film Distribution releasing the film in the UK and Eire.
