"The King's Speech" star Colin Firth is set to lend his voice for Paddington Bear in a new film based on the children's book by author Michael Bond.
The movie is the big screen adaptation of Bond's classic kids character Paddington Bear and the 53-year-old Oscar winner actor will provide the voice of the teddy bear, reported Contactmusic.
The books follow the story of a curious bear from darkest Peru who gets lost after arriving in the British capital.
The bear is adopted by a family named Brown who names him after the place where they found him: London's Paddington train station.
"Paddington will be computer generated, and I will speak his lines with, I suspect, a slight Peruvian flavour. Every other character in the film will be real, live, human beings," Firth said.
"But the idea is that Paddington will have something of me in his Dna because I'm going to do some sessions wearing one of those helmets with cameras to capture my face muscles, and all that data will somehow be incorporated into Paddington. Then they'll use motion- capture equipment on someone more bear-size than me to do all the full body, bear stuff," he added.
Nicole Kidman will play a villain while Hugh Bonneville plays the head of the family which adopts Paddington.
Firth will also lend his facial expressions to the computer-animated Paddington.
