A Monster Calls Liam Neeson

Steve Barton |

May 8, 2014

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The Hollywood Reporter

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A Monster Calls Liam Neeson On tap for you today is another bit of casting news for Juan Antonio Bayona’s next film, A Monster Calls, which is being produced by Belen Atienza (The Impossible, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Orphanage). Read on!

THR reports that badass action star Liam Neeson has officially signed on to play the titular monster in the film, starring alongside Felicity Jones. As we learned a few weeks back, Jones will be playing the character of Mum.

Lionsgate International will shop A Monster Calls to foreign buyers at the upcoming Cannes Film Market.

A Monster Calls is based on the award-winning children’s fantasy novel by Patrick Ness (the Chaos Walking trilogy). It will be distributed by Focus Features domestically, Universal Pictures International for its theatrical and home entertainment release in Spain, and Lionsgate International throughout the rest of the world.

Look for it in theatres via River Road Entertainment, Participant Media, Lionsgate International, and Focus Features on October 14, 2016.

Synopsis:
A Monster Calls is a visually spectacular drama about a young boy who attempts to deal with his mother’s illness and the bullying of his classmates by escaping into a fantastical world of monsters and fairy tales that deal with courage, loss, and faith.

Ness wrote the novel based on an original idea by the late Siobhan Dowd, and he and illustrator Jim Kay won Britain’s prestigious Carnegie Medal and Greenaway Medal in 2012, presented to the year’s best children’s literature in the UK. Ness is adapting the screenplay from his novel.