Jacob Tremblay and Julia Roberts have been cast in the Wonder film adaptation. The story comes from R.J. Palacio’s popular middle grade novel.
According to Vanity Fair, Tremblay will take on the lead role of Auggie Pullman and Roberts will play his mother. Tremblay’s character has a facial deformity; the book focuses on Auggie’s experiences with entering a mainstream school for the first time in his life.
Here’s more from The Independent: “Palacio wanted to write the 2012 bestseller to raise awareness among children of how people with deformities are treated in society. She was inspired after visiting an ice-cream shop with her three-year-old son and worrying how he might react to a child with a facial deformity in the queue.” (via The Hollywood Reporter)