| Miss Potter | |
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| Directed by | Chris Noonan |
| Written by | Richard Maltby, Jr. |
| Starring | Renée Zellweger Ewan McGregor Bill Paterson and Emily Watson |
| Distributed by | The Weinstein Company / Momentum Pictures (UK) |
Release date | January 5 2007 |
Miss Potter is an upcoming film from Chris Noonan. It is a biopic of children's author and illustrator Beatrix Potter, and will combine stories from her own life with animated sequences from her short stories, featuring characters such as Peter Rabbit.
Scripted by Richard Maltby, Jr., the director of the Tony-winning Broadway revue, Fosse, the film will star Renée Zellweger in the title role, and Ewan McGregor as her publisher and fiancee, Norman Warne. Emily Watson will also star as Warne's sister, Millie.
It was filmed in Cecil Court, Covent Garden, the Isle of Man and the Lake District and is currently slated for release in 2007.