The comedian still best known as Alan Partridge continues to find interesting film roles. Following his experimental turn in director Michael Winterbottom’s A Cock and Bull Story earlier this year and his supporting role in this week’s Marie Antoinette, Coogan has signed on to play the former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, in a Winterbottom-directed adaptation of his memoirs, Murder in Samarkand. Detailing Murray’s efforts to expose alleged British involvement in the torture of terror suspects and other human rights abuses, it will be an interesting departure for the comic.
Also in the pipeline for Coogan is a feature-length movie based around his Alan Partridge character, Alan Partridge: The Movie, although the production is currently on hold. Meanwhile, he will be appearing in the Ben Stiller vehicle Night at the Museum alongside the likes of Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Mickey Rooney, Dick Van Dyke and Ricky Gervais – due to hit our screens on Boxing Day.
Coogan will also appear in a cameo role in Hot Fuzz – the British police comedy from the team behind cult favourite Shawn of the Dead – and is currently attached in the Roger Moore role alongside Ben Stiller in a movie version of 60s TV classic The Persuaders.
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