David Tennant joins Hugh Laurie, Emilia Clarke, and more in the cast of The Amazing Maurice
David Tennant has joined the cast of amazing Maurice Former Doctor Who stars David Tennant will star alongside Hugh Laurie and Emilia Clarke in Sky’s forthcoming adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s best-selling children’s fantasy novel The Amazing Maurice. It will be the actor’s second appearance in a Pratchett film, following his role as the demon Crowley in Amazon Studios’ Good Omens in 2019. Along with Tennant, Sky has announced the addition of Rob Brydon (Roald & Beatrix: The Tale of the Curious Mouse), Julie Atherton (Avenue Q), and YouTuber Joe Sugg to the cast Hugh Bonneville, David Thewlis, Himesh Patel, Gemma Arterton, and David Thewlis also star.
Maurice, a streetwise ginger cat, devises a money-making scheme after befriending a gang of self-taught talking rats. When they meet Malicia, a bookworm, the con does not go as expected. Sky, Ulysses Filmproduktion, and Cantilever Media are producing the film in collaboration with Global Screen, Hamburg-based animation studios Studio Rakete, and Red Star Animation.
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