Jim Broadbent and Brenda Blethyn have joined the voice cast of animated project Ethel & Ernest based on the Raymond Briggs book.
The Little Film Company is handling worldwide sales in Toronto. John Coates is set to produce with Camilla Deakin as executive producer.
Ethel & Ernest is a comedic and poignant story about Briggs’ parents as they live through four decades of extraordinary events and social change in London.
Broadbent and Blethyn starred together in 1998’s Little Voice.
Title being packaged as a project with strong remake potential.
The sales, financing and production outfit will be introducing the projects to buyers at Cannes.
Kjersti Dalseiede, Tobias Santelmann, Ole Christoffer Ertvaag lead the cast.
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