EXCLUSIVE: Annabelle Wallis (The Mummy) has joined the solid of Pedro Pan, the historic thriller based mostly on true occasions from director Richie Adams.
Wallis is about to play Ms. Penny Powers, a British diplomat who took half within the Kindertransport throughout World Warfare II and later turned a key operative in Operation Pedro Pan, the kid rescue mission that the movie dramatizes. We just lately scooped the mission, which additionally stars Néstor Carbonell, Allen Leech, Danny Pino, Paz Vega and Andy García, and begins manufacturing in Mexico early subsequent month.
Set within the aftermath of Fidel Castro’s Cuban revolution, Pedro Pan follows a Cuban socialite, an English schoolteacher and an Irish Catholic priest in Miami who spearhead a daring operation to assist greater than 14,000 kids escape communist indoctrination and start new lives in America — evading Castro’s secret police at each flip.
The true-life Operation Pedro Pan came about between 1960 and 1962, when Cuban dad and mom — fearing the indoctrination of their kids underneath Castro’s regime — despatched them to the US in a clandestine program supported by the Catholic Church and the U.S. authorities. The kids arrived with out their dad and mom, with little greater than a suitcase, earlier than being positioned with kinfolk, foster households or Catholic charities. It stays the most important recorded little one refugee exodus within the Western Hemisphere.
Adams and Bart Gavigan (Finish of the Spear, Mouth of Hell) penned the script from a narrative by composer Carlos José Alvarez (Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami). Steve Shapiro (Discover Me Falling, The November Man), Alvarez, and Liz and Ken Whitney (Tommy’s Honor, The Mongoose) are producing alongside Adams underneath his newly shaped At Pace Footage, with Luisa Gómez de Silva (All Is Misplaced, Noticed X) offering manufacturing providers. David Frankel (The Satan Wears Prada, Marley & Me) and Brent Miller (I Carry You With Me, Earlier than We Overlook) are government producers.
Wallis is thought for roles in movies like Malignant, The Mummy, Tag, Annabelle and Annabelle: Creation, amongst many others. In tv, her credit embody Star Trek: Discovery, Peaky Blinders, The Loudest Voice and The Tudors. She is repped by UTA, Untitled Leisure, United Brokers and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.