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Keira Knightley to play the Sugar Plum Fairy in Disney’s The Nutcracker

August 19, 2016 by Gary Collinson

Last month it was announced that Mackenzie Foy (Interstellar) has nabbed the lead role of Clara in Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of The Nutcracker, and now Variety is reporting that Keira Knightley has signed on to portray the Sugar Plum Fairy.

The film, titled The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, is based upon E.T.A. Hoffman’s 1816 story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, which follows a young girl whose favourite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes to life and battles an army of evil mice, led by the Mouse King.

Lasse Hallstrom (Chocolat) is set to direct the film, whcih also has Morgan Freeman and ballerina Misty Copeland attached to star.

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Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Keira Knightley, The Nutcracker, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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