Benedict Cumberbatch and John Malkovich lend their voices to DreamWorks Animation's The Penguins of Madagascar

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August 6, 2013

He can currently be seen as Marvin in Dean Parisot's RED 2 and word is that John Malkovich will lend his voice alongside The Hobbit trilogy antagonist Benedict Cumberbatch in the forthcoming Madagascar spinoff The Penguins of Madagascar.

Cumberbatch will take on the role of the CIA agent hot on the trail of Malkovich's charming villain of the story.

The DreamWorks Animation favourite has spawned several Penguins spinoffs including a straight-to-DVD film and a comic book written by David Server and Jackson Lanzing as well as the Nickelodeon TV show.

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Helen Mirren - Summit Entertainment has targeted Aug. 2, 2013, for the sequel to RED, its hit 2010 action-comedy loosely based on the DC Comics miniseries by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner.

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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011 at 7:45am

• by Kevin Melrose

RED (retired, extremely dangerous) starred Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich as former CIA agents targeted for assassination because of the secrets they know. Directed by Robert Schwentke, the $60 million original exceeded Summit’s, and pretty much everyone’s, box-office expectations, grossing nearly $200 million worldwide.

Brothers Erich and Jon Hoeber returned to write the sequel, “which reunites our team of retired CIA operatives as they use their old-school style to take on a new set of enemies all across Europe.” Although there’s been no official announcement of whether Schwentke or the original stars will return, Mirren confirmed last month that she’ll reprise her role as Victoria.

Summit also set dates for director Jonathan Levine’s zombie romance Warm Bodies, with Nicholas Hoult and Theresa Palmer (Aug. 10, 2012), Louis Letterier’s Now You See Me, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson and Mark Ruffalo (Jan. 18, 2013), and Gavin Hood’s adaptation of Ender’s Game (March 15, 2013).

 

Helen Mirren Says She’s On For Red 2 Next Year

Submitted by Brendon Connelly on September 25, 2011 – 7:13 am

I can imagine that rounding up ensemble casts for the sequel to a sleeper hit* is a tricky, and expensive business. As Red 2 comes together, Summit will be having hijinks, working out new deals with several stars of the first film, their busy schedules and sharp agents.
It would be inconceivable that they’d proceed without Bruce Willis but, equally essential in my mind, would be Mary Louise Parker and Helen Mirren.
On Mirren’s part, the actress appeared on The Jonathan Ross Show last night and expressed her comittment to the role, saying:

We’re doing Red 2 next year.

To the point. But contractually binding? Of course not. Still, it’s the first proper indication I’ve seen of her involvement in the film.
Robert Schwentke, director of part one, is currently shooting R.I.P.D. It’s been assumed that he’ll still be busy with that when Red 2 gets going, but beyong some wish-list mumblings (Breck Eisner, for example) there’s not been any indication of who might direct in Schwentke’s stead.
This new film will have an entirely original storyline, drawn up by Jon and Erich Hoeber, who adapted Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner’s comic for the first picture. I expect they’ll have had some kind of conversation with Ellis, at least at the spitballing stage, though how involved he’d actually want to be is another question altogether.
*Well, ish. It certainly wasn’t a tentpole.