Universal Pictures and Working Title Films say principal photography is set to begin next month in England on Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang. Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson is returning to the title role she originated in the Nanny McPhee, the tale of a magical caretaker who appears when she's wanted the least and needed the most. The new family comedy will be directed by Susanna White, whose credits include television's Bleak House, Generation Kill and Jane Eyre. Also returning for the second entry in the McPhee film franchise is producer Lindsay Doran, who previously worked with Thompson on the Victorian era-set Nanny McPhee, as well as the contemporary comedy Stranger Than Fiction and the big-screen adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. In addition to starring in and writing the McPhee sequel, Thompson will executive produce it. In the latest installment, Nanny McPhee jumps forward in time and appears at the door of a harried young mother who is try

Academy Award(R)-Winning Actress and Screenwriter Emma Thompson Returns to Next Chapter of Beloved Family Comedy, Directed by Susanna White and Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rhys Ifans and Academy Award(R) Winner Dame Maggie Smith LONDON, April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Universal Pictures and Working Title Films - in association with Three Strange Angels Productions - announced today that principal photography begins early next month on Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang.

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