EXCLUSIVE: Garret Dillahunt ( Lanterns ) is the newest addition to the cast of Pedro Pan , the historical thriller based on true events from director Richie Adams.

Dillahunt will portray James Baker, an American career educator, the headmaster of the Ruston Academy — an American school in Havana — and one of the key architects of Operation Pedro Pan. As previously announced, the cast also includes Néstor Carbonell, Allen Leech, Danny Pino, Paz Vega, Andy García and Annabelle Wallis. Production began in Mexico this 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 indoctrination and

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