Jacob Tremblay, the nine-year-old actor who delighted us with his performance in Lenny Abrahamson’s Room last year, has signed to star alongside Owen Wilson in the adaptation of YA novel Wonder. The book is written by Raquel Jaramillo, under the pen name of R. J. Palacio, and was fist published in 2012.
Tremblay will play the role of Auggie in the film, the main protagonist. Here’s a little more about the story from the official book synopsis.
You can’t blend in when you were born to stand out.
My name is August. I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.
August Pullman wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things. He eats ice cream. He plays on his Xbox. He feels ordinary – inside.
But Auggie is far from ordinary. Ordinary kids don’t make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids don’t get stared at wherever they go.
Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life, in an attempt to protect him from the cruelty of the outside world. Now, for the first time, he’s being sent to a real school – and he’s dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted – but can he convince his new classmates that he’s just like them, underneath it all?
We’re getting hints of Oscar glory here already.
Perks Of Being A Wallflower author/director Stephen Chbosky is helming this one. Julia Roberts has also been cast in the movie as Auggie’s mother.
More as we get it.
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