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Benedict Cumberbatch will star in and executive produce an adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel “The Child in Time,” TheWrap has confirmed. In their first television commission, Pinewood Television and Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch TV will produce the 90-minute one-off film for BBC One, with Masterpiece co-producing. Cumberbatch will star as Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children’s books, who is confronted with the unthinkable: the loss of his child. Also Read: Benedict Cumberbatch to Return as 'Doctor Strange' in 'Thor: Ragnarok' The death sets Stephen and his wife on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief. »
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