EXCLUSIVE: Annabelle Wallis ( The Mummy ) has joined the cast of Pedro Pan , the historical thriller based on true events from director Richie Adams.
Wallis is set to play Ms. Penny Powers, a British diplomat who took part in the Kindertransport during World War II and later became a key operative in Operation Pedro Pan, the child rescue mission that the film dramatizes. We recently scooped the project , which also stars Néstor Carbonell, Allen Leech, Danny Pino, Paz Vega and Andy García, and begins production in Mexico early next month.
Set in the aftermath of Fidel Castro’s Cuban revolution, Pedro Pan follows a Cuban socialite, an English schoolteacher and an Irish Catholic priest in Miami who spearhead a daring operation to help more than 14,000 children escape communist