After proving A different man Last year, Breakout star Adam Pearson has just played his next major role. By VarietyReport, the actor signed to direct a new cinematographic adaptation of the awarded play by Bernard Pomerance The elephant manwhich uses the newspapers of the doctor Dr. Frederick Treves as a foundation to explore the remarkable true story by Joseph Merrick.
Not to be confused with David Lynch’s film in 1980 The elephant manWho also focused on the life of the seriously distorted Merrick, this new film will mark the first cinematographic treatment that the play by Pomerance received, with Bernard’s son, Moby Pomerance, after addressing the script. In addition, in another first, the cast of Pearson – which has a neurofibromatosis and regularly uses its platform to challenge the stigma surrounding the condition – marks the first time that a disabled actor has played Merrick. Bradley Cooper, David Bowie, Billy Crudup and Mark Hamill have already described Joseph Merrick on stage, while John Hurt took the lead in Lynch’s film, but Pearson will be the only actor to date whose own lived experience somehow reflects the subject of the play.
“Joseph Merrick is a man with whom I have a long and complex relationship,” Pearson said in a press release accompanying the announcement of his cast. “By making use of his name as a term of derision to the learning of man himself in documentaries that I presented. It was a cathartic journey to grow to love and respect a man to whom I am a child even avoided to think., As a defender and actor of the handicap, I cannot think of any honor (still a great responsibility) than to tell the true story of Josep Carey.”
Added the daughter of Bernard Pomerance Eve, producer of the film, in his own statement: “My father never wanted the prostheses to be used on stage because he felt that she took out the audience in history. He wanted them to fully sympathize with Merrick, to see herself in him. Shoes. My father would be more excited to see his dream become a reality.
While we do not yet know who will direct The elephant manOr when exactly it is ready to release, we know that it must start to shoot in the spring of 2026. And for the moment, the prospect of another fleshy role for Adam Pearson – and a direct cinematographic adaptation of the Pomerance game last – is more than enough to have our attention. Hoping that we hear Pearson to flex his pipes again in it; We always think of that Karaoke scene of A different man On a daily basis.
