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Eva Green is in talks to reunite with director Tim Burton for Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
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The Fox film, set for release on July 31, 2015, is based on Ransom Riggs‘ YA novel, which follows a teenage boy who is transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures out to destroy them.
X-Men: First Class writer Jane Goldman adapted the script based on Riggs’ debut novel, which hit stores in 2011. Peter Chernin’s Chernin Entertainment is producing.
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Green, who would play the headmistress of the orphanage, previously worked with Burton on 2012’s Dark Shadows.
The actress currently stars on Showtime’s Penny Dreadful. Her previous film work includes 300: Rise of an Empire, and the upcoming White Bird in a Blizzard and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. She’s repped by UTA and Tavistock Wood Management in the U.K.
E-mail: Rebecca.Ford@THR.com
Twitter: @Beccamford
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