Dark Knight“Dark Knight” actress Maggie Gyllenhaal is set to star opposite Emma Thompson in the “Nanny McPhee” sequel, according to Production Weekly.

The movie, tentatively titled “Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang,” will see Thompson reprise her role as the magical nanny, although there is no word yet as to what role Gyllenhaal will play.

According to Thompson, the sequel will be markedly different from the 2005 original, which took in $122 million at the worldwide box office. “It’s not a sequel, actually, it’s a new story,” she told MTV in November. “(The second film) is set one hundred years later; the only thing that is the same is Nanny McPhee.”

Thompson, who penned the screenplay for the first McPhee movie, once again helped to write the second story. According to the Oscar winner, the new movie takes place in wartime and follows the nanny as she deals with two “extremely different” families, one with country children and the other with town children.

Filming is slated to begin next month in England.

Gyllenhaal, whose other film credits include “Secretary” and “Mona Lisa Smile,” has two movies coming out this year, the indie pic “Away We Go” and the music-based drama “Crazy Heart.”






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