Jamie Chung (Dragonball Evolution) and Jena Malone (Donnie Darko, Into the Wild, The Ruins) are set to topline Sucker Punch, Zack Snyder's all-female action fantasy for Warner Bros.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Chung and Malone join Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens and Abbie Cornish in the film, which Snyder is directing and producing with his Cruel & Unusual Films partner, wife Deborah Snyder.
Set in the 1950s,
Sucker Punch centers on a girl confined to a mental institution by her evil stepfather, who intends to have her lobotomized in five days. While there, she imagines an alternate reality to hide from the pain and in that world begins planning her escape, needing to steal five objects to help get her out.
Several actors have been in talks and negotiations to star in the movie, including Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia), Evan Rachel Wood and Emma Stone, but have fallen away because of scheduling conflicts (surely their schedules were known when they first said they could do it?)
Chung, replacing Stone, plays Amber, a country girl with a big heart. Malone, taking Wood's part, plays Cornish's younger sister. Both characters are inmates.
All seems a bit strange having people who had been confirmed to take part dropping out like this. One I could understand, but now three of the original line-up have changed. I wonder if it is anything to do with Watchmen's underperformance at the box office? I wouldn't be surprised if Vanessa Hudgens is the next to drop out due to scheduling conflicts.
I'm still looking forward to this film though as I have enjoyed Snyder's comic book adaptions and it will be interesting to see him do something a bit more original.
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Check out the first piece of art from Zack Snyder's original film, Sucker Punch.
The cast includes Justin Chatwin (The Invisible) as Goku, James Marsters (Buffy - The Vampire Hunter), Jamie Chung, Chow Yun-Fat and Emmy Rossum (The Phantom of the Opera).
James Marsters above reaching for the toilet paper with his giant hand.
I don't know much about the whole Dragonball universe so I'm not going to comment on whether the photos do justice to the manga. Let me know if they do or don't.
