Toni Collette & Jean Reno Added To Stellar Cast For ‘Hector And The Search For Happiness’

We’re excited to report that principal photography has begun on Peter Chelsom’s comedy HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS and they’ve added more great names to the line-up.

The previously announced stellar cast surrounding Simon Pegg as the eponymous hero, which includes Academy Award winner Christopher Plummer, Rosamund Pike (AN EDUCATION) and Stellan Skarsgård (THOR), has now been joined by Toni Collette  as Hector’s ex-girlfriend Agnes, and Jean Reno as drug baron Diego. Veronica Ferres (KLIMT) also joins the ensemble as clairvoyant Anjali.

Simon Pegg plays Hector, an eccentric yet irresistible London psychiatrist in crisis: he’s going nowhere and his patients are just not getting any happier! Until one day, armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, Hector breaks out of his sheltered vacuum of a life into a global quest to find out if happiness exists: and more importantly, if it exists for Hector. And so begins an exotic, dangerous and hysterical journey.

Adapted for the screen from the bestselling novel (look here!) of the same name by François Lelord, the film is a German/Canadian co-production produced by Egoli Tossell Film and Screen Siren Pictures and co-produced by Erfttal Film GmbH, Wild Bunch Germany and Construction Film and Film House Germany and Head Gear Films, who are cementing their position as one of the most significant providers of film finance in the UK.

Exclusive international sales rights will be handled by London’s Bankside Films. We look forward to bringing you more news as and when on this very interesting project and oh, here’s an amusing shot of Mr Pegg, just for the hell of it.