Gun Company Calls For Boycott of Liam Neeson After Anti-Gun Comments

[Divernan]

59. I'm looking forward to his film scheduled for 2016 release, A Monster Calls

and it's good news there will be no gun fanatics in the audience with me.

A Monster Calls is said to be “a visually spectacular” drama about 12-year-old Conor (newcomer Lewis MacDougall) who attempts to deal with his mother’s (Felicity Jones) illness and the bullying of his classmates by escaping into a fantastical world of monsters and fairy tales that explore courage, loss and faith. The cast also includes Academy Award nominees Liam Neeson, who will star in performance-capture and voiceover as the nocturnally visiting monster of the title, and Sigourney Weaver, who will portray Conor’s maternal grandmother, Toby Kebbell as Conor’s father, and Geraldine Chaplin, who is making her third movie with Bayona.

“‘A Monster Calls’ is a beloved and iconic book, and I’m thrilled at the opportunity to create a world of monsters and fantasy that does it justice,” said Bayona, “I’m also delighted to rejoin much of my creative team from ‘The Impossible,’ and I couldn’t ask for a more talented and prestigious cast, and a more supportive group of studio partners, to help bring this incredible project to the screen.”

The creative team on A Monster Calls also includes production designer Eugenio Caballero, an Academy Award winner for Pan’s Labyrinth, who previously collaborated with the director on The Impossible, costume designer Steven Noble (The Theory of Everything), and cinematographer Óscar Faura, who shot both The Impossible and The Orphanage.