Bryan Cranston Joins Angelina Jolie and Sam Rockwell in Upcoming Disney Film THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Bryan Cranston will be joining Angelina Jolie and Sam Rockwell in Disney's THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN. The upcoming film, directed by Thea Sharrock (ME BEFORE YOU), is an adaptation of the Newberry Medal-winning book written by Katherine Applegate.

Published by Harper Collins in 2011, the book centers on a silverback gorilla named Ivan (Rockwell) who lives in a cage in a shopping mall along with an elephant named Stella (Jolie) and a stray dog called Bob. Ivan does not remember life before the mall, but when a baby elephant named Ruby enters and Ivan finds himself taking care of her, he begins to rediscover his previous life and concocts a plan to take the baby elephant away from their abusive owner.

Cranston will play the desperate owner of a failing circus.

Best known on Broadway for his Tony Award-winning turn as Lyndon B. Johnson in the political drama, All the Way, Bryan Cranston is an actor, voice actor, producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for portraying Walter White on the AMC crime drama series BREAKING BAD, Hal on the Fox comedy series MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE, and Dr. Tim Whatley on the NBC comedy series SEINFELD. For BREAKING BAD, Cranston won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times (2008-2010, 2014), including three consecutive wins (the second time in television history after Bill Cosby in I Spy during the 1960s).After becoming one of the producers of BREAKING BAD in 2011, he also won the award for Outstanding Drama Series twice. Cranston won a Tony Award for his work in the play ALL THE WAY in 2014.

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