Tom Hiddleston to play Sir Edmund Hillary in Tenzing
Tom Hiddleston will play Sir Edmund Hillary in 'Tenzing'. The 'Night Manager' actor will star alongside Willem Dafoe, who will play English expedition leader Colonel John Hunt in See-Saw Films' upcoming biopic of Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, the Nepalese-Indian mountaineer who became one of the first men to stand on the top of the world when the group summited Mount Everest in 1953. A search is currently underway for an actor to take on the title role of the mountaineer, who had made six previous attempts to scale Everest before the historical 1953 effort. Jennifer Peedom is making the movie after l...