David Tennant stars in The Amazing Maurice which was released on Friday 16th December 2022 on Sky Cinema and in UK cinemas.

David Tennant voices the character Dangerous Beans.

The movie also features the voices of Hugh Laurie as Maurice, Emilia Clarke as Malicia, David Thewlis as Boss Man, Himesh Patel as Keith, Gemma Arterton as Peaches and Hugh Bonneville as The Mayor.

It was released in movie theaters in the US on Friday 3rd February 2023.

The story The Amazing Maurice is based on Terry Pratchett's best selling novel.

In The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents, Maurice is a streetwise ginger cat who comes up with a money-making scam by befriending a group of self-taught talking rats. When Maurice and the rodents reach the stricken town of Bad Blintz they meet a bookworm called Malicia and their little con soon goes down the drain.

The film is co-produced by Sky, Ulysses Filmproduktion and Cantilever Media in partnership with Global Screen, with animation studios Studio Rakete (Hamburg) and Red Star Animation (Sheffield). The film has the full support of the Terry Pratchett estate and is produced in association with Narrativia. Producers are Julia Stuart (Sky), Emely Christians (Ulysses), Andrew Baker and Robert Chandler (Cantilever Media) and Rob Wilkins (Narrativia).

The Film is directed by Toby Genkel, co-director is Florian Westermann and is from a screenplay by Terry Rossio.

The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents is a children�s fantasy by Sir Terry Pratchett which was published by Doubleday in 2001 and has sold nearly 90 million books worldwide. It was the 28th novel in the Discworld series, but the first written for children.

The Amazing Maurice is a lively and entertaining adventure inspired by the German fairy tale about the Pied Piper of Hamelin and a parody of the folk tale genre. Pratchett won the annual Carnegie Medal for the book � children�s literature�s highest award. Despite many other awards, honorary degrees and the knighthood that followed, Sir Terry Pratchett always emphasised that this was the award of which he was most proud.

David Tennant provided the voice of Dangerous Beans in the BBC Radio Seven version of The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents.

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