Updated On: 25 July, 2019 09:28 AM IST | Los Angeles | PTI
Benedict Cumberbatch will essay the title role of English artiste Louis Wain, while Claire Foy will play his wife, Emily.

Benedict Cumberbatch reacts on stage as the crowd sings Happy Birthday to him during the Marvel panel in Hall H of the Convention Center during Comic-Con in San Diego. Pic/AFP
Los Angeles: Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy are teaming up for the biopic on English artiste Louis Wain in the eponymous film. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the drama will follow the story of the real-life Victorian painter known for his paintings and drawings of anthropomorphised big-eyed cats and kittens.
In his later years, it is believed he had schizophrenia, the effects of which, according to some psychiatrists, are visible in his works. Wain died in 1939. Cumberbatch will essay the title role, while Foy will play his wife, Emily. The film marks the first collaboration between the Avengers: Endgame star and The Crown star.