EXCLUSIVE: Steve Coogan is set to star in The Penguin Lessons, with The Full Monty’s Peter Cattaneo to direct the Jeff Pope-scripted adaptation of the Tom Michell nonfiction bestseller.
The Management/production company 42 partners Rory Aitkin and Ben Pugh will produce alongside Robert Walak. Rocket Science is handling international sales and will introduce the film at EFM, with CAA Media Finance repping U.S.
distribution rights. The Penguin Lessons is the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina in 1976.
Expecting an easy ride, he discovered instead a complicated and divided nation – and a class of practically unteachable young boys.
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