As Saza said in ‘Amanece que no es poco’, in this town we feel a true devotion to Faulkner ‘Paddington’. The two feature films based on the adventures of the jam sandwich-eating bear directed by Paul King are a couple of samples of the best cinema that we can put in our mouths, and the announcement of a third party invited us to dream of the best trilogy in history of the cinema.
existential void
However, the fact that King chose to focus on ‘Wonka’ and handed over the baton of ‘Paddington in Peru’ to music video and publicity expert Dougal Wilson, caused many of us to shudder in mistrust and fear of disaster. Now, the statements of Ben Whishaw, voice of the adorable ursid, once again suggest a dire scenario.
As the actor has stated, he has been without news of ‘Paddington 3’ for a long time, which includes not having read the script or having approximate production dates. The project seems to be in limbo.
“I haven’t read this script and I don’t even know when we’re going to shoot it. I don’t know. I thought we’d be doing it now, but I don’t know. It’s gone quiet the way these things sometimes do. Maybe it just means that they’re still working on it, or maybe it means it’s not going to happen, or you just don’t know.”
Like Whishaw, we don’t have the faintest idea what’s going to happen with ‘Paddington in Peru’. Now, he couldn’t say if, under the circumstances, he would prefer stay with the memory of its wonderful and necessary first two deliveries or face the possibility of standing up to a delivery that does not do the slightest justice to its predecessors.