Benedict Cumberbatch is the Grinch who stole Christmas, get used to it
LAS VEGAS -- Benedict Cumbergrinch? Benegrinch Cumberbatch?
However you want to mash it up, Benedict Cumberbatch is set to voice the Grinch in Universal/Illumination's animated How the Grinch Stole Christmas, now set for 2017.
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Illumination honcho Chris Meledandri announced the voice casting Wednesday night at CinemaCon, the annual gathering of Hollywood studios and the exhibitors who show their movies.
Universal/Illumination had little to show CinemaCon from the film besides a few images of the computer-generated Grinch himself, who looked more like the green guy from the 1966 short than the 2000 cinematic take starring Jim Carrey.
Cumberbatch has a pretty impressive resume of voice and motion-capture roles piling up by now, including the dragon Smaug in The Hobbit trilogy, a wolf in Penguins of Madagascar and Shere Khan in The Jungle Book (the other Jungle Book, not the Disney one coming out this weekend).
We'll next see Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange in Disney/Marvel's Doctor Strange.
You're a strange one, Mr. Cumberbatch.
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Josh Dickey is Mashable's Entertainment Editor, leading Mashable's TV, music, gaming and sports reporters as well as writing movie features and reviews.Josh has been the Film Editor at Variety, Entertainment Editor at The Associated Press and Managing Editor at TheWrap.com.A finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club's Best Entertainment Feature in 2015 for "Everyone is Altered: The Secret Hollywood Procedure that Fooled Us for Years," Josh received his BA in Journalism from The University of Minnesota.In between screenings, he can be found skating longboards, shredding guitar and wandering the streets of his beloved downtown Los Angeles.
