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Keira Knightley will be a fairy in the new film adaptation of “the Nutcracker”

Кира Найтли станет феей в новой экранизации "Щелкунчика"The film also will star Morgan Freeman.

Actress keira Knightley will play the sugar plum fairy in the new feature film adaptation of “the Nutcracker”, reports Entertainment Weekly. A new Disney movie called “the Nutcracker and the Four kingdoms”. He tells a classic story about a girl, a Christmas doll which came to life to fight against the terrible Mouse king with seven heads.

The main role in it will play 15-year-old Mackenzie Foy. The film also appears Morgan Freeman, but the role will be performed by the actor as yet unknown. The Director of the film will be Hallstrom Lasse, who directed “What’s eating Gilbert Grape”, “Hachiko: the Most loyal friend” and “Chocolate”.

The original fairy tale of Hoffmann “the Nutcracker and the Mouse king” was published in 1816, but became widely known, she received only after 76 years in the ballet version of Peter Tchaikovsky. Earlier it was reported that Angelina Jolie will shoot a feature length film about the time of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. It will be based on the book “First they killed my father: a daughter’s memories of Cambodia,” Cambodian writer Loon University.

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