Green Gables film casts new Anne
A TV movie reboot of Anne of Green Gables has found its lead. Toronto 13-year-old Ella Ballentine will star in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, which Breakthrough Entertainment says will debut on YTV next year. Breakthrough is making the two-hour original movie in association with Montgomery’s granddaughter, Kate MacDonald Butler, who is an executive producer. Susan Coyne wrote the screenplay and John Kent Harrison is directing the film.