--- description: The new Goodbye Christopher Robin movie will focus on Winnie the Pooh creator A.A. Milne title: New Goodbye Christopher Robin Trailer Takes a Look at Winnie the Pooh's Creator image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt486b13b29a8c18db/6988d89d7cdbac4bded5981d/gettyimages-89856291.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # New _Goodbye Christopher Robin_ Trailer Takes a Look at Winnie the Pooh's Creator by [Lisa Marie Segarra](/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 5, 2017 7:15 PM CUT  A.A. Milne, author of the story Winnie the Pooh, with his son Christopher Robin. A.A. Milne, author of the story Winnie the Pooh, with his son Christopher Robin.Photograph by Api—/Getty by [Lisa Marie Segarra](/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 5, 2017 7:15 PM CUT The new _Goodbye Christopher Robin_ movie will focus on [Winnie the Pooh](http://time.com/4860367/winnie-the-pooh-xi-china-obama-ban/ "undefined") creator A.A. Milne. The new [biopic](http://time.com/4702842/hillary-clinton-biopic-actress/ "undefined") will feature Domhnall Gleeson, who plays Milne, and his son Christopher Robin played by Will Tilston. Margot Robbie also plays Christopher Robin’s mother Daphne in the upcoming movie. The story follows Milne writing about his son and his toys, which later became the famous Winnie the Pooh stories, [Entertainment Weekly reported.](http://ew.com/movies/2017/08/04/goodbye-christopher-robin-trailer/ "undefined") _Goodbye Christopher Robin_ will show how Milne’s stories gained popularity through England after World War I and how Milne himself handles the effects post-war. The trailer shows [Milne](http://time.com/vault/issue/1956-02-13/page/58/ "undefined") and Christopher Robin walking through the woods, which he brought to life in the Hundred-Acre Wood. The trailer shows details made famous in the Winnie the Pooh-like honey pots, bees and even Poohsticks. Simon Curtis of _My Week With Marilyn_ directs _Goodbye Christopher Robin_, which will be in theaters Oct. 13. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4888858/new-goodbye-christopher-robin-trailer-takes-a-look-at-winnie-the-poohs-creator/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4888858/new-goodbye-christopher-robin-trailer-takes-a-look-at-winnie-the-poohs-creator/"},"headline":"New Goodbye Christopher Robin Trailer Takes a Look at Winnie the Pooh's Creator","datePublished":"2017-08-05T19:15:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:52:40.494Z","description":"The movie hits theaters Oct. 13","url":"https://time.com/4888858/new-goodbye-christopher-robin-trailer-takes-a-look-at-winnie-the-poohs-creator/","keywords":["movies","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt486b13b29a8c18db/6988d89d7cdbac4bded5981d/gettyimages-89856291.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lisa Marie Segarra","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt486b13b29a8c18db/6988d89d7cdbac4bded5981d/gettyimages-89856291.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"goodbye christopher robin","caption":"The English novelist Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956) author of the story Winnie the Pooh, here with his son Christopher Robin Milner (1920-1996), photo by Howard Coster, 1926 - English novelist Alan Alexander Milne who wrote the story of Winnie the Pooh","creditText":"Photograph by Api—/Getty","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4888858/new-goodbye-christopher-robin-trailer-takes-a-look-at-winnie-the-poohs-creator/","name":"New Goodbye Christopher Robin Trailer Takes a Look at Winnie the Pooh's Creator"}}]}] ```