Morgan Freeman to star in Walt Disney's Nutcracker
The cast of the Walt Disney movie based on Hoffmann's fairy tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" has an impressive replenishment. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he was joined by Hollywood veteran Morgan Freeman, who will play one of the key characters - the godfather of the main character and genius mechanic Drosselmeyer. Recall that the movie will also star the actress McKenzie Foy, familiar to the audience on the project "The Twilight Saga. Breaking Dawn" and the fantastic movie "Interstellar". She will be accompanied by American ballet prima Misty Copeland, who is expected to perform solo dance numbers. The shooting schedule of the movie with the working title "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms" ("The Nutcracker and the four worlds") at the time of this writing has not been specified. It is also unknown when the movie will be presented to viewers. The literary source was published at the beginning of the 19th century. However, the real popularity came to the work after the premiere of the ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, held in 1892. The tale has been movieed several times, both in the form of animated movies and fiction. In 2009, The Nutcracker and the Rat King was released, which failed at the box office. The Topic of Article: Morgan Freeman to star in Walt Disney's Nutcracker. |
