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‘Veep’ Creator to Write Sequel to Beloved Children’s Films

The creator behind the razor-sharp political satire is taking on the fourth film in an acclaimed franchise.

The Emmy-winning creator behind the political satire comedy series Veep is set to write the upcoming fourth film in the hit Paddington franchise, Variety reports. Armando Iannucci, the Scottish writer and director, will co-write Paddington 4 with his longtime collaborator Simon Blackwell, who also wrote for Veep and Iannucci’s British political sitcom The Thick of It. Dougal Wilson, who directed the franchise’s well-received third installment, Paddington in Peru, is in talks to come back for the next chapter, according to Variety. Following English author Michael Bond’s beloved red-hatted bear, the Paddington franchise has earned more than $800 million worldwide across its first three films, the first of which, Paddington, was released in 2014. Iannucci, 62, won two Emmys in 2015 for Veep, which starred Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a fictional U.S. Vice President and aired on HBO for seven seasons between 2012 and 2019. He also earned an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for In the Loop, the film spinoff of The Thick of It. Along with In the Loop, Iannucci directed 2017’s The Death of Stalin and 2019’s The Personal History of David Copperfield.