Recently keeping afloat in Ron Howard's In The Heart Of The Sea, Edward Ashley will be following his shipmate Tom Holland to his next project. He's just joined James Gray's historical adventure **The Lost City Of Z. Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller and Charlie Hunnam are also aboard.
The adaptation of David Grann’s book has been in development for a while, but finally locked down its main cast earlier this year. Hunnam is playing Percy Fawcett, who headed into the Amazon on a mapping quest in 1925.
There, suffering from a nasty case of malaria, he claimed to have discovered a mythical city he called the Lost City of Z. When his adventurer peers roundly mocked the idea as a fantasy or fraud, Fawcett gathered up his son and one other companion and headed back into the jungle to prove his point. And that’s the last anyone saw of all three...
Ashley will be Arthur Manley, a young corporal who accompanied Fawcett on his apparantly doomed expedition. Pattinson is Henry Costin, another bored corporal who answered Fawcett's advertisement. And Miller is Fawcett's wife Nina.
Gray's shoot - taking in Northern Ireland and Colombia - is already underway, and The Lost City Of Z is expected in cinemas later next year. In The Heart Of The Sea is out on December 26.