Art Parkinson, who plays Rickon in Game of Thrones, will star alongside Donwton Abbey’s Penelope Wilton is new family film, Zoo.

The film, based on a true story, will also feature Toby Jones.

The story follows a 12-year old boy and his misfit friends who enlist an older woman in the fight to save Buster the baby elephant during the air raids on Belfast in 1941.

Filming is expected to begin  in mid-July with Colin McIvor set to direct.