Stellan Skarsgård has joined the cast of Peter Chelsom’s "Hector and the Search for Happiness," the Solution Entertainment Group and producers Judy Tossell of Egoli Tossell Film and Christine Haebler of Screen Siren Pictures announced Thursday.
Skarsgård joins Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike and Christopher Plummer in the film, based on the bestselling novel of the same name by François Lelord. The script is written by Maria von Heland, Chelsom and Tinker Lindsay.
Skarsgård will play Edward, a rich, jaded banker whom Hector (Pegg) befriends on his flight to China. German actress Marianne Sägebrecht will also appear in film, playing a clairvoyant who has lost her ability to see into the future.