Rose Byrne to star in Peter Rabbit in coup for NSW film production house

ENDURING children’s favourite Peter Rabbit is set to be brought to life in NSW as a feature film starring Australian actor Rose Byrne.

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ENDURING children’s favourite Peter Rabbit is set to be brought to life as a feature film starring Australian actor Rose Byrne and the voice of Carpool Karaoke star James Corden.

The Beatrix Potter classic, created in 1902 as a children’s book, will be a hybrid live action and animation movie created in NSW by production house Animal Logic in conjunction with Sony Pictures.

Byrne, who gave birth to her first child Rocco Cannavale in February this year, will return to her native Australia from her New York base to film.

Rose Byrne will return to Australia to work on the film.

Peter Rabbit has been around for well over a century.

“This production, secured for NSW through the government’s new $20 million Made in NSW fund, will create jobs for 55 local actors and more than 600 crew as well as showcase our state to the world,” said NSW deputy premier and minister for the arts Troy Grant..

The state government announced the fund, which is designed to draw in both international blockbusters and local film and TV productions, was announced by Grant in June this year.

The past 12 months have seen a number of big-budget films call Sydney home.

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Sir Ridley Scott’s much-anticipated sequel Alien: Covenant was filming in Sydney’s west and at Moore Park’s Fox Studios in April and May of this year, with the venerated director calling the harbour city home for much of the year.

Scott’s star Michael Fassbender was regularly seen surfing and soaking up the cafe culture of the eastern suburbs.

Mel Gibson filmed his World War Two epic Hacksaw Ridge in Sydney’s west at the end of last year, a move which brought Spiderman Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn, Sam Worthington, Hugo Weaving and Rachel Griffiths to the city.