Voltage Pictures’ The Professor and the Madman has added Game of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer. She stars opposite previously announced Sean Penn and Mel Gibson.
THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN
Mel Gibson will star in The Professor and the Madman with Sean Penn in early negotiations to join him. Apocalypto writer Farhad Safinia is set to direct from his own screenplay, which he has adapted from Simon Winchester’s 1998 book.
The story of Professor James Murray, the founding editor of the Oxford English dictionary, and how he discovered that one of his biggest contributors was a paranoid schizophrenic holed up in a nearby English asylum for committing murder.
