Anthony Head Joins A Street Cat Named Bob

Roger Spottiswoode is on to direct, working from Tim John’s adaptation of James Bowen’s best-seller. The book chronicled his life on the street as a busker and recovering drug addict whose life is transformed when he met a stray ginger cat he named, as the title might hint, Bob. Luke Treadaway is set as Bowen, with Ruta Gedmintas as Belle, an animal loving woman who lives nearby.

Head is playing Bowen’s father, Nigel, while Froggatt is our main man’s drug support worker, Val. Shooting Script Films is behind this one, figuring that people will flock to see the story of a man who starts to turn his life around with the help of a cute kitty.

Buffy veteran Head has mostly been busy on TV of late, though his most recent US TV sci-fi series Dominion (based on angelic mayhem movie Legion) has just been given the axe, but he’s also on the big screen in Convenience. Froggatt, who has the final series of Downton Abbey on screens now, is attached to indie drama Starfish and is filming Victorian murder mystery miniseries Dark Angel.