After that bad third instalment, the fourth ‘Paddington’ film now seems somewhat interesting, with the announcement that Armando Iannucci and Simon Blackwell are writing the screenplay (via Variety).
Iannucci will reunite with co-writer Blackwell to script the fourth, currently untitled film, which is expected to arrive in theaters in 2028. Too bad Dougal Wilson, who directed the mediocre third instalment, 2024’s “Paddington in Peru,” is in talks to return.
Iannucci and Blackwell are the minds behind HBO’s “Veep” and the satirical political comedy “In the Loop” (2009). Iannucci himself wrote and directed the excellent “The Death of Stalin” (2017) and is no stranger to navigating political satire. Yet something tells me he won’t be delving too deeply into politics — maybe just a little satire — in ‘Paddington 4.’ No swearing, of course.