First Look: The New Paddington Bear

All the way from darkest Peru, the polite bear with the penchant for smart attire and marmalade sandwiches will soon be plotting up at a screen near you.

And an all-star cast is following the furry chap and his travails in London, thanks to the producers of ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Gravity’.

The official synopsis, as with Michael Bond’s classic book series, is thus:

“Paddington has grown up deep in the Peruvian jungle with his Aunt Lucy who, inspired by a chance encounter with an English explorer, has raised her nephew to dream of an exciting life in London. When an earthquake destroys their home, Aunt Lucy decides to smuggle her young nephew on board a boat bound for England, in search of a better life.

"Arriving alone at Paddington Station, Paddington soon finds that city life is not all he had imagined – until he meets the kindly Brown family, who find him with a label tied around his neck which reads ‘Please look after this bear. Thank you.’ They offer him a temporary home whilst he searches for the explorer who impressed Aunt Lucy all those years before.”

Joining the ursine Anglophile is a wealth of talent, including Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth (who voices the bear himself), Sally Hawkins, Peter Capaldi, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, and Matt Lucas.

You’ll be able to see him in the fur from November 28.