If anyone can heal this broken land, it’s Jacob Tremblay. The nine-year-old Canadian is everyone’s favourite child actor of the moment, after breaking our hearts in Room star and then fixing them again with a series of awesomely charming awards season appearances. The Star Wars fanatic is fulfilling a new dream in his next movie and working with a Star Wars director Colin Trevorrow in The Book Of Henry.
The new issue of Empire has the full story on the latest from Jurassic World and now Star Wars: Episode IX man Trevorrow. There’s much more in the magazine, but here’s a first-look still from the film to give a taste of what to expect.
On the left with the plunger is Jaeden Lieberher as child prodigy Henry Carpenter; on the right is Tremblay as his brother Peter. The Gregg Hurwitz-scripted story sees the pair on a so-far mysterious scheme.
“I wanted to do something that scared the hell out of me” Trevorrow tells Empire of his return to smaller-scale filmmaking. “An acoustic movie with intense emotion. The challenge was to give an audience the same tension and thrills they get from a blockbuster, but rely solely on story and character to do it.”
For much more on The Book Of Henry, as well as Star Trek Beyond, X-Men, The Accountant, Jason Bourne, David Brent: On The Road, Christopher Walken and lots more movie and TV goodness, pick up the new issue of Empire on Thursday, June 30 or subscribe here{
The Book Of Henry is out later in 2016.