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Everyone's favourite Bond will star in the film, Finding Forrester, which will start shooting here in April.
Directed by Gus Van Sant, the movie is about an author, played by Connery, who is a recluse along the lines of J.D. Salinger.
The film's producer, Laurence Mark, said that initially Toronto as a location didn't seem ideal because the film requires some specific New York references, but they later decided Toronto could work.
Mark describes Finding Forrester as the "evil twin" of Good Will Hunting, the film about a maladjusted math whiz that won Matt Damon and Ben Affleck an Oscar for screenwriting. It was also directed by Van Sant.
Producer Mark won an Oscar for Jerry Maguire, and was executive producer of As Good As It Gets, Anywhere But Here and Bicentennial Man.