StudioCanal<\/a>, LD Entertainment, Lucky Red and Magnolia Mae Films \u2014\u00a0is described as a \u201cdeeply moving and inspiring true story\u201d of the actor Ian Charleson, who faced incredible odds while preparing to give the \u201cperformance of his life\u201d in \u201cHamlet\u201d at the National Theatre in London. <\/p>\n\n\tAndrea Occhipinti of Lucky Red (\u201cIl Divo,\u201d \u201cEverybody Knows\u201d) produces with Gabrielle Tana of Magnolia Mae Films (\u201cThe Dig,\u201d \u201cPhilomena\u201d), along with Pete Shilaimon and Mickey Liddell of LD Entertainment, and Stefano Massenzi and Carolyn Marks Blackwood. Scott is also a producer, while Beresford is an executive producer along with Ethan Silverman who originated the project.<\/p>\n
\n\tStudiocanal is financing the film with LD pre-buying North America. Ron Halpern, executive vice president global production and Joe Naftalin, senior vice president of global production will oversee for StudioCanal, which will release theatrically in their territories of the U.K., France, Germany, Poland, Benelux, Australia and NZ. Lucky Red will distribute in Italy.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThis is one of the most exciting projects I\u2019ve ever been involved in,\u201d said Stone. \u201cStephen Beresford\u2019s screenplay is both heartbreaking and hilarious, a beautiful ode to the power of community in times of crisis. Andrew Scott is one of the greatest actors of his generation as Ian Charleson was: it\u2019s momentous casting.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cElsinore\u201d will start shooting on Jan. 5, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a \u201cFleabag\u201d reunion. Andrew Scott and Olivia Colman are set to star in \u201cElsinore,\u201d based on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[120002,96,2839,44230,119629,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-319536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-andrew-scott","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-olivia-colman","12":"tag-studiocanal","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}