Total Updates: 24
added a running time of 124 minutes
changed the US film release date from TBA to May 10, 2019
set film release to Limited
changed the movie production status to Completed
added Jennifer Ehle as actor to credits
added Laurence Fox as actor to credits
added Steve Coogan as actor to credits
added Jeremy Irvine as actor to credits
Ioan Gruffudd is set to join Mel Gibson and Sean Penn in The Professor and the Madman, a film about James Murray.
changed the production status to Production
added Bruce Davey as producer to credits
added Ioan Gruffudd as Henry Bradley to credits
Natalie Dormer will star opposite Mel Gibson and Sean Penn in The Professor and the Madman.
added Natalie Dormer as actor to credits
Mel Gibson is ready to bring the best-seller The Professor and the Madman to the big screen and has enlisted Sean Penn in the effort.
added a synopsis
In 1857, Professor James Murray sets about compiling the Oxford English Dictionary, one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. Dr. W.C. Minor submits more than 10,000 entries, but when the committee insists on honoring him, a shocking truth comes to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, is also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane.
added Mel Gibson as Professor James Murray to credits
added Farhad Safinia as director and screenwriter to credits
added Voltage Pictures as a production company
changed the production status to Pre-Production
added adaptation as genre
created the movie profile
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