Just a few months after landing
Christopher Robin‘s Marc Forster to helm the film, Lionsgate’s
White Bird: A Wonder Story has begun building its cast as Oscar winner Helen Mirren (
Hobbs & Shaw) has signed on to join the cast.
Based on Palacio’s 2019 graphic novel, the story centers on Julian Albans, the 11-year-old bully who left Beecher Prep, who is still waiting for the insight of how kindness has the power to save lives when he is visited by his Grandmère from Paris and is transformed by her remarkable story of compassion and courage. Grandmère’s fairy-tale life before the war abruptly changes as the Nazis occupy France, and the outcast classmate who she once shunned becomes her savior and best friend.