Peter Rabbit ( film ) - wikipedia Peter Rabbit ( film ) Peter Rabbit Theatrical release poster Directed by Will Gluck Produced by Will Gluck Zareh Nalbandian Written by Rob Lieber Will Gluck Based on Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter Starring Rose Byrne Domhnall Gleeson Sam Neill Daisy Ridley Elizabeth Debicki Margot Robbie James Corden Music by Dominic Lewis Cinematography Peter Menzies Jr. Edited by Christian Gazal Production company Columbia Pictures Sony Pictures Animation Olive Bridge Entertainment Animal Logic 2.0 Entertainment Screen Australia Screen NSW Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing Release date February 3, 2018 ( 2018 - 02 - 03 ) ( The Grove ) February 9, 2018 ( 2018 - 02 - 09 ) ( United States ) March 22, 2018 ( 2018 - 03 - 22 ) ( Australia ) Running time 95 minutes Country United States Australia Language English Budget $50 million Box office $341.6 million Peter Rabbit is a 2018 live - action / computer - animated comedy film directed by Will Gluck and written by Rob Lieber and Gluck, based on the stories of Peter Rabbit created by Beatrix Potter. The film stars the voice of James Corden as the title character, with Rose Byrne, Domhnall Gleeson, Sam Neill, Daisy Ridley, Elizabeth Debicki, and Margot Robbie also starring. The film was released on February 9, 2018, received mixed reviews from critics and has grossed over $341 million worldwide, making it the tenth highest - grossing film of 2018. A sequel is set for a February 7, 2020 release. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 2.1 Voice cast 3 Production 3.1 Filming 4 Release 4.1 Trailer criticism 4.2 Home media 5 Reception 5.1 Box office 5.2 Critical response 5.3 `` Allergy bullying '' controversy 6 Sequel 7 References 8 External links Plot In England 's Lake District Peter Rabbit, his cousin Benjamin Bunny, and Peter 's triplet sisters ( who can be distinguished by the colour of jackets they each wear ) Flopsy ( red ), Mopsy ( yellow ), and Cottontail ( teal ), spend most of their days picking on Mr. Joe McGregor and stealing vegetables from his garden. They are friends with a local woman named Bea who spends her time painting pictures of the rabbits as well as the surrounding nature. Bea takes on a mother - like relationship with the rabbits due to the death of their mother and father. One day Peter is forced to leave his jacket in McGregor 's garden and goes back to retrieve it. McGregor spots and catches him, but suddenly dies of a heart attack, due to decades of unhealthy eating habits. Enthralled, Peter invites all of the woodland critters, and then takes over McGregor 's manor. Meanwhile in London, McGregor 's grandnephew Thomas McGregor, an uptight, controlling workaholic, works at the toy department of Harrods department store where he waits for a promotion to associate general manager. He indifferently accepts the news about his great - uncle 's death, someone he was completely unaware of, but is infuriated over losing the promotion to a lazy nephew of the managing director and is fired for losing his temper. His now former manager encourages him to to get a hobby and spend some time in the country. When Thomas learns that his great - uncle 's manor is valuable and that he 's inherited it, he decides to appraise and prepare it for resale in order to start his own toy store to rival Harrods. He kicks out Peter and his friends and begins to upgrade the security of the garden wall and gates, despite Bea 's objections. When Peter and Benjamin sneak back into the garden, Thomas catches the latter and attempts to drown Benjamin. His cousins rescue him ; Thomas instead accidentally drops the binoculars that Bea had given him earlier, forcing him into the river to retrieve it. Thomas and Peter start a war with each other by setting up traps and other offensive nuisances. Thomas and Bea end up falling in love with each other, which causes Peter to become jealous and wanting to separate them more. Thomas framed Peter for ruining Bea 's paintings and she sent Peter outside along with the other rabbits. Soon, Bea turns on Thomas when his violent tendencies begin to show. This all culminates when Thomas throws dynamite at Peter 's burrow, and uses it to attack Peter in the garden, before telling him that his antics caused him to become aggressive. When Peter detonates the dynamite to prove to Bea that Thomas was using it, he ends up knocking down the tree on top of the burrow, which crushes Bea 's art studio. Thinking that Thomas was responsible for the detonation, Bea breaks up with him, and he goes back to London to work at Harrods again. Peter feels bad for what he has done, and upon learning that Bea intends to leave the neighborhood, he and Benjamin head to London to find Thomas at Harrods. Revealing they can talk, Peter apologizes for his part of the conflict and convinces Thomas to follow his heart. They rush back to the country where Peter reveals that he had activated the detonator, and he and Thomas apologize to Bea for their fighting. Thomas discovers that he can not go home because a snobbish couple, whom Thomas had an ugly encounter with prior, had just bought the house. Peter and his friends use their tricks to force the couple out of the house, allowing Thomas to move back in. In a mid-credits scene, Thomas sets up his own toy shop in the village, and Bea begins to write and illustrate books based on Peter and his friends. Cast Domhnall Gleeson as Thomas McGregor / Mr. Jeremy Fisher ( voice ) Rose Byrne as Bea / Jemima Puddle - Duck ( voice ) Sam Neill as Mr. Joe McGregor / Tommy Brock ( voice ) Marianne Jean - Baptiste as Harrods General Manager Felix Williamson as Derek Voice cast James Corden as Peter Rabbit Daisy Ridley as Cottontail Rabbit Margot Robbie as Flopsy Rabbit and the Narrator Elizabeth Debicki as Mopsy Rabbit Colin Moody as Benjamin Bunny Sia as Mrs. Tiggy - Winkle Fayssal Bazzi as Mr. Tod Ewen Leslie as Pigling Bland Christian Gazal as Felix D'eer Rachel Ward as Josephine Rabbit Bryan Brown as Mr. Rabbit David Wenham as Johnny Town - Mouse Alexandra Gluck and Taryn Gluck as London Street Rats Will Reichelt as JW Rooster II Jensen Karp as Rap Bird The Singing Sparrows were voiced by Jessica Freedman, Shana Halligan, Katharine Hoye, Chris Mann, Chad Reisser, and Fletcher Sheridan Production The film was first revealed in April 2015 through email leaks as a result of the Sony Pictures hack. The official announcement of the film came that December. On August 4, 2016, it was reported that Will Gluck would be directing the live - action / computer - animated film from a script by Gluck and Rob Lieber, with James Corden cast to voice Peter Rabbit and Rose Byrne to play one of the live - action roles. The report also said Gluck would produce the film along with Zareh Nalbandian of Animal Logic, which will be providing the visual effects and animation for the film. On September 26, 2016, Daisy Ridley and Elizabeth Debicki had joined the cast, with the live action production scheduled to commence in Sydney, Australia in January 2017. On October 18, Domhnall Gleeson was cast as Thomas McGregor, the descendent of the original Mr. McGregor, and on October 24, Margot Robbie joined the cast, expected to voice a bunny. On November 7, Sia was cast to join the film as Mrs Tiggy - Winkle. Filming On December 18, 2016, a first image of the title character, along with the movie 's logo, had been revealed. Production began in December 2016. Live action scenes were filmed at Centennial Park in Sydney. In March 2017, filming took place at Central railway station, Sydney, which was depicted as London Paddington station. In April 2017, a film crew were seen in Ambleside and Windermere in the Lake District. A local toy shop on Compston Road, Ambleside, was adapted to be Mr McGregor 's. Release Peter Rabbit was originally scheduled to be released on March 23, 2018, but it was moved up to February 9, 2018. Trailer criticism The first trailer received negative feedback from critics and fans of the character, many of whom labelled the film as being too modern and insulting to Beatrix Potter 's works. Collider slammed the trailer as `` garbage '' and a `` low brow ' comedy ' cringe fest. '' Stuart Heritage from The Guardian stated that `` the Peter Rabbit film looks like the result of some blisteringly inept manhandling (... ) there 's something genuinely harrowing about the sight of Peter Rabbit -- gentle, Edwardian Peter Rabbit -- thoughtlessly injuring some birds, or grabbing a pile of lettuce leaves and making it rain like a banker in a strip club, or literally twerking '' and argued `` there is no way on Earth that ( Beatrix Potter would ) have ever given the green light to a slow motion car crash like this. '' Metro writer James Baldock found that the trailer was `` so gut wrenchingly bad '' and that `` if the movie lives up to its two minute preview -- ( it ) is set to be the greatest abomination to grace the big screen since The Emoji Movie. '' He finished by writing `` Listen carefully, and you can just about hear the sound of Beatrix Potter, turning furiously in her grave. '' On November 7, a new trailer for the United Kingdom was released. Home Media The film was released on digital platforms on April 20, 2018. A Blu - ray and DVD and 4K followed on May 1, 2018. Reception Box office As of May 28, 2018, Peter Rabbit has grossed $341.6 million worldwide, $115.1 million of that in the United States and Canada, against a production budget of $50 million. In the United States and Canada, the film was released alongside Fifty Shades Freed and The 15 : 17 to Paris, and was projected to gross around $16 million from 3,725 theaters in its opening weekend, with some estimates as high as $25 million. It ended up making $25 million over the weekend, finishing second at the box office behind Fifty Shades ( $38.8 million ). In the UK, Peter Rabbit became the biggest family film of 2018, overtaking Pixar 's Coco with $56.3 million. Totals from other markets include China ( $26.5 million ), Australia ( $20.2 million ), France ( $12.3 million ) and Germany ( $12.1 million ). Critical response On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 62 % based on 125 reviews and an average rating of 5.8 / 10. The site 's critical consensus reads, `` Peter Rabbit updates Beatrix Potter 's classic characters with colorfully agreeable results that should entertain younger viewers while admittedly risking the wrath of purists. '' On Metacritic, the film has a score of 51 out of 100 based on 26 critics, indicating `` mixed or average reviews ''. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of `` A − '' on an A+ to F scale. `` Allergy bullying '' controversy In the first week after the film 's release, groups in multiple countries criticized it for `` allergy bullying '' and called for an apology from Sony. The accusations focused on a scene where Thomas McGregor -- whose character has a known severe allergy to blackberries -- is pelted with the berries until one enters his mouth, causing him to enter anaphylactic shock and grab for his Epipen. 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Official website Peter Rabbit on IMDb Beatrix Potter The Tales The Tale of Peter Rabbit The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin The Tailor of Gloucester The Tale of Benjamin Bunny The Tale of Two Bad Mice The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy - Winkle The Tale of the Pie and the Patty - Pan The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit The Story of Miss Moppet The Tale of Tom Kitten The Tale of Jemima Puddle - Duck The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly - Poly Pudding The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies The Tale of Ginger and Pickles The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes The Tale of Mr. Tod The Tale of Pigling Bland Appley Dapply 's Nursery Rhymes The Tale of Johnny Town - Mouse Cecily Parsley 's Nursery Rhymes The Tale of Little Pig Robinson Other books Tom Kitten 's Painting Book Jemima Puddle - Duck 's Painting Book Peter Rabbit 's Almanac for 1929 The Fairy Caravan Sister Anne Wag - by - Wall The Tale of the Faithful Dove The Sly Old Cat The Tale of Kitty - in - Boots Other media The Tales of Beatrix Potter The Tailor of Gloucester The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends Miss Potter Beswick Pottery The Game of Peter Rabbit Peter Rabbit ( television series ) Beatrix Potter 's The Tales of Peter Rabbit and Friends Peter Rabbit ( film ) People Annie Moore Norman Warne Hardwicke Rawnsley Charlie McIntosh Leslie Linder Judy Taylor Locations Hill Top, Cumbria Beatrix Potter Gallery Near and Far Sawrey Dalguise Lake District Derwentwater St Herbert 's Island Little Town, Cumbria Newlands Church Newlands Valley Hawkshead Keswick, Cumbria Carleton Crematorium and Cemetery Armitt Library Esthwaite Water Sawrey Near Sawrey Melford Hall Moss Eccles Tarn Characters Peter Rabbit Mr. McGregor Tabitha Twitchit Publishers Frederick Warne & Co David McKay The Horn Book Magazine Sony Pictures Animation Feature films Computer - animated Open Season ( 2006 ) Surf 's Up ( 2007 ) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs ( 2009 ) Hotel Transylvania ( 2012 ) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 ( 2013 ) Hotel Transylvania 2 ( 2015 ) Smurfs : The Lost Village ( 2017 ) The Emoji Movie ( 2017 ) The Star ( 2017 ) Live - action / animated The Smurfs ( 2011 ) The Smurfs 2 ( 2013 ) Goosebumps ( 2015 ) Peter Rabbit ( 2018 ) Produced with Aardman Animations Arthur Christmas ( 2011 ) The Pirates ! 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Question: who played old mr mcgregor in peter rabbit
Answer: Sam Neill