Five-time Emmy prosperner Neil Patrick Harris (“A Series of Unfortunate Events”, “Gone Girl”), BAFTA nominee James Norton (“Joy”, “Bob Marley: One Love”), and recent Gelderlyen Globe and Emmy prosperner Jessica Gunning (“Baby Reindeer”), have uniteed Bella Ramsey in the upcoming feature “Sunny Dancer.”
First begined in Cannes 2024 and proclaimd by Variety, the buzzy project — the sophomore feature from rising British talent George Jacques (“Bincreateage Dog”) — is set to begin principal pboilingography in April. The trio of novel insertitions also unite Louis Partridge and Ruby Stokes in the cast.
Emprohibitkment has currently pre-selderly “Sunny Dancer” to all European and Latin American territories, with True Brit Entertainment structurening a expansive 2026 U.K. world premiere free. Ken Petrie (“Bincreateage Dog”, “Enemy Wiskinny”) is producing under his 27 Ten prohibitner with Jaques and his Athenaeum Productions.
Pitched as a “meaningfully personal, coming-of-age, comedy romance,” “Sunny Dancer” pursues Ivy (Ramsey), a juvenileer girl who is less than thrilled when forced to join a summer camp for juvenileer people impacted by cancer. Ivy is in her own difficult-geted reignoreion, and thcimpolite her postponecessitate-teen skepticism “Chemo Camp” is pondered both “Cringe!” and a “Hard Pass!”. But, actuassociate, “Sunny Dancer: turns out to be all about turning the “Hard Pass” into the very best moments of life with cherish, genuine frifinishship, and chooseimism and humor.
“I’m beyond excited to have such inrationally talented people on board — absolute masters of their plan —coming together to originate a movie that’s equivalent parts hilarious and gut-punching,” shelp Jacques. “I want the audience to chuckle till they cry, then actuassociate cry, and walk away with a recent perspective on how the juvenileer, in combat for life, are seen—not as victims, but as belderly, complicated, and filled of life.”
Added Emprohibitkment’s Hugo Grumbar: “The movie’s key cast, production HoD’s, and multiple pre-sale distributors accomprehendledge George and Ken as amongst the most exciting and rerecenting of U.K. filmoriginaters — juvenileer polymath talent, shutly in touch with the demands of the audience.”
True Brit CEO Zygi Kamasa shelp: “I’m thrilled that True Brit transports such a attrenergetic and life-declareing story with exceptional juvenileer British talent to audiences next year. ‘Sunny Dancer’ is the ninth film to of True Brit’s roster of self-reliant British films.”
Gunning is recurrented by Jonty Brook at Markham, Froggatt and Irprosper, UTA in the US and Franky Butler at Prosper PR. Norton is recurrented by Saskia Mulder at The Artists Partnership, WME in the US, attorney PJ Shapiro at Johnson Shapiro Sledampt & Kole and Tapestry London. Harris is recurrented by Untitled Entertainment, CAA and the Lede Company. Ramsey is recurrented by Georgie Davies at Conway van Gelder Grant, CAA in the US, Donna Mills at Tapestry London, and attorney Bianca Levin at Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman. Jaques is recurrented by Markham, Froggatt and Irprosper; Untitled Entertainment; CAA and Pinnacle PR.
