{"id":676775,"date":"2026-07-06T14:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T14:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676775\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T14:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T14:07:11","slug":"ian-mckellen-and-roger-allams-heartfelt-drama-with-incredible-british-cast-gets-joyous-new-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676775\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian McKellen and Roger Allam’s “heartfelt” drama with incredible British cast gets joyous new look"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frank and Percy, the “heartfelt” upcoming movie<\/a> starring Sir Ian McKellen and Roger Allam alongside a star-studded supporting cast, has released a heartwarming new image of its two leads.<\/p>\n

The film follows the titular duo as they meet while walking their dogs on Hampstead Heath in London, and develop an unexpected friendship that could turn into something more.<\/p>\n

The new image shows the pair celebrating Pride, with Allam’s character Frank decked out in a rainbow feather boa. McKellen’s Percy, meanwhile, holds up a sign saying ‘Blessed Be the Fruits’.<\/p>\n

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Jack Merriman<\/p>\n

Related: UK film release dates<\/a><\/p>\n

The official synopsis accompanying the photo states that it “reflects the heart of the film – a warm, uplifting story of love, friendship and the courage to embrace new beginnings at any stage of life”. <\/p>\n

It adds: “A celebration of love, companionship and second chances, Frank and Percy is a poignant reminder that it’s never too late to find connection.”<\/p>\n

In terms of that stacked supporting cast, there are so many British greats.<\/p>\n

We’ve got national treasures Sir Stephen Fry and Dame Joanna Lumley, and two Doctor Who Doctors in Ncuti Gatwa and Peter Davison.<\/p>\n

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Jack Merriman<\/p>\n

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There’s also Baby Reindeer’s Jessica Gunning, The Windsors’ Hugh Skinner, Gavin & Stacey’s Rob Brydon, McKellen’s Vicious co-star Sir Derek Jacobi, Keeping Faith’s Dame Si\u00e2n Phillips, Rosemary & Thyme’s Felicity Kendal, A Discovery of Witches’ Dame Sheila Hancock, A Man for All Seasons’ Gary Wilmot, EastEnders’ Nitin Ganatra, Adolescence’s Amari Bacchus, and dancer Wayne Sleep.<\/p>\n

The film is written by Mrs Henderson Presents’ Martin Sherman, and directed by theatre veteran Sean Mathias, who both worked on the film Bent together.<\/p>\n

Frank and Percy doesn’t have a release date at the time of writing.<\/p>\n

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Joe Anderton is a freelance news writer at Digital Spy, having worked there since 2016. In his time, he’s covered a host of live events and interviewed celebrities big and small. A big fan of TV<\/a> and movies<\/a> both mainstream and obscure, Joe also enjoys video games and in particular PlayStation. Joe currently does not use Twitter, but he only ever used it to tell people to watch the film Help! I’m a Fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank and Percy, the “heartfelt” upcoming movie starring Sir Ian McKellen and Roger Allam alongside a star-studded supporting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[147950,379,226102,381,96,190731,1156,2839,226101,223205,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-676775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-9bd0a77f-f103-450f-ab45-adb1c3c044c7","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-movies","tag-shorttitle-ian-mckellens-heartfelt-new-drama-gets-joyous-new-look","tag-sponsored-false","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676775","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=676775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}