Actor Colin Firth has signed on to voice Paddington Bear in an upcoming reboot film based on the Michael Bond books.
The book is about a bear from Peru who is found at Paddington station in London by the Brown family, reported Contactmusic.
The star of "The King's Speech" and "Pride and Prejudice" will be joined by Australian actress Nicole Kidman, "Downtown Abbey's" Hugh Boneville as the bear's adoptive father Mr Brown.
"I'll be wearing a helmet with cameras to capture my face muscles, and that data will somehow be incorporated into Paddington," he said.
Firth also added he will speak the dialect with a "slightly Peruvian flavour", which will be entraining in itself.
Firth was convinced to join the project by the film's director Paul King.
Kidman also commented, expressing her pleasure with joining the production, "I just had to do the bear film. My agent called and said, 'We've got this offer from London for you to be in a film about a Paddington Bear.' And I said, 'You mean the Paddington Bear?!"
It is set for release during Christmas 2014.
