Music-themed drama August Rush – in which a young prodigy (Charlie And The Chocolate Factory’s Freddie Highmore) searches for this real parents – has gained yet another top thesp.
Added to the ranks of Keri Russell, Terrence Howard, Jonathan Rhys Myers and Robin Williams is William Sadler, famously Death in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey and last seen in Kinsey, who will play the father of August’s mother, Lyla (Russell).
The movie is currently being directed by Disco Pigs helmer Kirsten Sheridan in New York.