''Mrs Peppercorn's Magical Reading Room'' is a 24-minute fantasy/magical short film directed by Mike Lè Han. In November 2010, the official trailer was released and entered into the International Movie Trailer Festival and won Best Trailer for an Un-Produced Movie. In March 2011, the film premiered at Bafta in London, then in August of the same year, was requested by

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to screen at their Burbank facility in Los Angeles. Three days later, the film won grand prize of Best Short Film at the prestigious

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International Film Festival. In December 2011, it won Best Short Fiction Film at the Olypmia International Film Festival in Greece. In May 2013, ''

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'' reported that a teen fantasy film loosely based on the short film, titled ''The Peppercorn Chronicles'', was in development, with Lè Han directing the film and co-writing the script with his wife Helen. The film was to be produced by

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’s production company Black Lake, with Cole serving as executive producer, and production was expected to begin in February 2014 in the

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and

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, Noah Ringer and

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were signed on to star in the film, which was intended to be the first in a film trilogy titled ''Peppercorn''. The film never materialized and as of May 2023, no further information about the film and its two sequels surfaced, presumably they were cancelled.

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* * British short films 2011 films 2010s English-language films {{2010s-UK-film-stub