The Professor and the Madman (film)

The Professor and the Madman
Directed by	Farhad Safinia
Produced by	Bruce Davey Jayson de Rosner Mel Gibson Macdara Kelleher Peter McAleese
Screenplay by	John Boorman Todd Komarnicki Farhad Safinia Simon Winchester
Based on	The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester
Starring	Mel Gibson Natalie Dormer Sean Penn Jeremy Irvine Kieran O'Reilly Olivia McKevitt David Crowley Malcolm Freeman Bryan Quinn Robert McCormack
Cinematography	Kasper Tuxen
Edited by	John Gilbert
Production company	Fastnet Films Icon Entertainment International
Country	United States Ireland
Language	English

The Professor and the Madman is an upcoming American-Irish drama film, based on the book The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester.

Plot

The film tells about a professor, who in 1857 began compiling the OED and led the overseeing committee and the doctor, who submitted over 10,000 entries, when he was a convict at an asylum for the criminally insane.^[1]

Cast

• Mel Gibson as James Murray
• Natalie Dormer
• Sean Penn as Dr. William Chester Minor
• Jeremy Irvine as Charles Hall
• Kieran O'Reilly as Minor's Father
• Olivia McKevitt as Clare Merrett
• David Crowley as Parfit
• Malcolm Freeman as Colonel
• Bryan Quinn as Sir Richard
• Robert McCormack as Harold Murray
• Leon Bonney as Teacher

References

1. Mel Gibson, Sean Penn Starring in ‘The Professor and The Madman’

External links

• The Professor and the Madman at the Internet Movie Database