Simon Pegg has already helped Tom Cruise save the world in “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” this summer. So what’s next on his acting agenda? How about starring as a psychic detective investigating a talking mongoose? Sound a little too outlandish? Well, strap in, because “Nandor Fodor And The Talking Mongoose” is based on a true story.
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Even more outlandish still: author Neil Gaiman will voice said talking mongoose, and this whole premise is based on a true story. As the upcoming British film nears its premiere at San Diego Comic Con this weekend, here’s a new trailer for it. Pegg stars as Nandor Fodor, a psychic investigator in 1930s Britain who travels to the Isle Of Man to look into reports of Gef, a small mammal that speaks. While Fodor becomes increasingly skeptical about the Irving family’s reports about the talking mongoose, his assistant Anne (Minnie Driver) thinks they may be real. So what’s really going on with the townspeople on the Isle Of Man?
“Nandor Fodor And The Talking Mongoose” also stars Christopher Lloyd as another paranormal investigator, Edmund Kingsley, Tim Downey, Ruth Connell, and Paul Kaye. And, of course, Neil Gaiman voices the Gef the mongoose. Adam Sigal writes and directs the film.
“Nandor Fodor And The Talking Mongoose” hits theaters on September 1 after its Comic Con premiere. Watch a trailer for the film below.