Upcoming Spider-Man star Tom Holland has joined the cast of The Lost City of Z, which has started production in Belfast.
Holland, who first came to prominence for his performance in The Impossible, has joined a stellar cast that already includes Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy), Robert Pattinson (Cosmopolis) and Sienna Miller (American Sniper). Acclaimed filmmaker James Gray (The Immigrant) is in the director’s chair, with Brad Pitt and his Plan B Entertainment part of the producing team.
Based on the best-selling book by David Grann, the film tells the story of Percy Fawcett, “a conscripted soldier and born explorer who disappeared in the 1920s while searching for a mythical city in the Amazon jungles of Brazil that he believed he discovered on a prior expedition.
Paramount is expected to release the film sometime in 2016.
Holland makes his debut as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in next summer’s Captain America: Civil War, but will next be seen opposite Thor himself Chris Hemsworth in Ron Howard’s In The Heart of the Sea.
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Originally published August 20, 2015. Updated April 13, 2018.
