Deadline reports that Pirates of the Caribbeans actor Mackenzie Crook has signed on to star in BBC’s forthcoming film adaptations of novelist Barbara Euphan Todd’s classic British scarecrow tale Worzel Gummidge.
The film was commissioned by BBC’s Controller Comedy Commissioning, Shane Allen and BBC’s Director of Content, Charlotte Moore.
The only person more shocked is Worzel, when he discovers that the children are not, in fact, fellow scarecrows but humans.
The Scarecrow Of Scatterbrook, will follow two young strangers, Susan and John, arrive in the village of Scatterbrook, where they encounter Gummidge.