Dev Patel starring in “modern re-telling” of story.Lionsgate has taken UK rights to Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History Of David Copperfield.Dev Patel is starring as Copperfield, joining him in the cast are Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Ben Whishaw, Aneurin Barnard, Morfydd Clark, Anthony Welsh and Rosalind Eleazar.FilmNation handles international sales here in Cannes and jointly represents Us rights with UTA Independent Film Group.Iannucci will direct and produces with Kevin Loader.
Principal photography is expected to begin in June in the UK.FilmNation developed the feature, written by Iannucci and Simon Blackwell, with whom Iannucci and
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