Everyone has to come from somewhere. Even stuffed bears addicted to honey.
Goodbye Christopher Robin recounts the origins of Winnie the Pooh, zeroing in on the real-life relationship between A.A. Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) and his son, Christopher Robin.
The Goodbye Christopher Robin trailer has a fairy-tale feel, starting with the words "once upon a time." But the story it tells is realer and rawer, beginning with Milne's lingering trauma from the first World War.
Time will tell how Goodbye Christopher Robin pans out, but if nothing else, it looks like the kind of movie that goes to the Oscars, in that it's a sweeping biopic about a brilliant but complicated man. Think Finding Neverland – the J.M. Barrie biopic that got Johnny Depp his second Oscar nomination.
Heck, Goodbye Christopher Robin even has an awards-friendly fall release date. It opens September 29 in the U.K. and October 13 in the U.S.
