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April 14, 2009 (from Can Mag)

Maggie Gyllenhaal Joins Nanny McPhee Sequel

By Ryan Parsons

Now that Maggie Gyllenhaal can't continue on as Bruce Wayne's girlfriend, she has time to spare to for Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, the sequel to the 2005 hit.

Emma Thompson will not only reprise her role in the film, but she is also penning the script and exec producing. Also joining the cast are Rhys Ifans, Maggie Smith and Asa Butterfield.

While the term big bang would make us think the plot has something to do with science, space or quantum physics, Nanny McPhee and the Bing Bang will be centered on a group of kids who are evacuated from the city to a farm during wartime.

British helmer Susanna White is set to make her feature directing debut with the project. Ralph Fiennes is in talks to make a cameo appearance in the film.

April 14, 2009 (from Variety)

Maggie Gyllenhaal boards 'Nanny'

Actress, trio of thesps join 'McPhee' sequel

By ALI JAAFAR

LONDON -- Maggie Gyllenhaal has boarded "Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang," the sequel to Working Title's 2005 hit "Nanny McPhee."

Also joining the cast are Rhys Ifans, Maggie Smith and Asa Butterfield ("The Boy in the Striped Pajamas").

Emma Thompson, who is also penning the script and exec producing, will reprise her role as a magic-wielding governess.

The action this time centers on a group of kids who are evacuated from the city to a farm during wartime.

Brit helmer Susanna White is set to make her feature directing debut with the project, set to go into production this summer. Ralph Fiennes is in talks to take an uncredited cameo in the pic.

Series is based on Christianna Brand's popular "Nurse Matilda" tyke books.

Working Title co-toppers Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan are producing along with Lindsay Doran. Debra Hayward and Liza Chasin will exec produce.

April 14, 2009 (from Rope of Silicon.com)

‘Nanny McPhee’ Sequel Finds Its Cast Including Maggie Gyllenhaal

I heard good things, but never saw the original

The sequel to 2006’s family comedy Nanny McPhee sort of came out of nowhere recently when it was mentioned as an aside in a Variety article saying Ralph Fiennes may take an uncredited cameo role in the feature for Universal Pictures, but since then Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang has become a living breathing feature and today we get a nice little cast list for the film whose original was well liked by critics and earned over $120 million in worldwide box-office.

Emma Thompson is back to reprise her role as the title character, a magic-wielding governess, and this time she will be joined by Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rhys Ifans, Maggie Smith and Asa Butterfield reports Variety.

The story for the sequel is set one hundred years after the first film. The magical nanny will deal with city children and country children who are evacuees during World War II. It’s about the war and the war between these two sets of extremely different children.

Susanna White (”Generation Kill”) is set to make her feature directing debut with the project, set to go into production this summer based on Christianna Brand’s popular “Nurse Matilda” stories.

April 15, 2009 (from Awards Daily.com)

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

The original Nanny McPhee got a raw deal out of the gate. It was, I felt, dumped quickly and then pulled from theaters due to lack of public interest (perhaps), so-so reviews (I seem to recall), and virtually no awards attention at all. A shame. The film has since developed a following much the same way Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe has. Little by little, bit by bit.

What threw people about Nanny McPhee certainly wasn’t the story, written by Emma Thompson, and it certainly wasn’t the ensemble: Emma Thompson, Angela Lansbury, Imelda Staunton, Colin Firth, Kelly MacDonald, and all of those kids. It was probably the colors. No, I’m going to guess that what threw people was the art and costume design. And that is such an insignifigant annoyance it has definitely faded with time, perhaps even disappeared altogether.

Rope of Silicon’s Brad Brevet alerts us to the Variety story which gives some details of the Nanny McPhee sequel. Emma Thompson is back as screenwriter, actress and executive producer. The film will take place, according to RoS, 100 years after the first film and will follow a group of kids who are moved out of the city and into the country. It also stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rhys Ifans and will be directed by first-timer Susannah White.

I will be curious to see what the look of the sequel will be. Will they keep the gumball colored theme from the first film or will they fade it out to give it a less absurd look. I say this, though, being someone who really loved the film and who didn’t have any problem with how it looked.

April 28, 2009 (from United Press International)

'Nanny McPhee' sequel shooting soon

Universal Pictures and Working Title Films say principal photography is set to begin next month in England on Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang.

Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson is returning to the title role she originated in the Nanny McPhee, the tale of a magical caretaker who appears when she's wanted the least and needed the most.

The new family comedy will be directed by Susanna White, whose credits include television's Bleak House, Generation Kill and Jane Eyre.

Also returning for the second entry in the McPhee film franchise is producer Lindsay Doran, who previously worked with Thompson on the Victorian era-set Nanny McPhee, as well as the contemporary comedy Stranger Than Fiction and the big-screen adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.

In addition to starring in and writing the McPhee sequel, Thompson will executive produce it.

In the latest installment, Nanny McPhee jumps forward in time and appears at the door of a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war, Universal said in a news release. But once she's arrived, Nanny McPhee discovers that Mrs. Green's children are fighting a war of their own against two nasty, snobby cousins who have just moved in and refuse to leave.

Joining Thompson in the cast are Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rhys Ifans, Asa Butterfield, Maggie Smith and Ralph Fiennes.