Variety reports via ComingSoon.net that AnnaSophia Robb — the young star of Because of Winn-Dixie (my junket report; my review) and Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and a self-professed Christian — will co-star with Oscar-winner Hilary Swank in The Reaping, a “supernatural tale” from Robert Zemeckis and Joel Silver’s Dark Castle Entertainment, about a “myth debunker (Swank) who travels to a small, religious town in Texas to investigate occurrences that appear to be the 10 Biblical plagues.” The most recent version of the script is by Chad and Carey Hayes, whose last film was the Paris Hilton-starring House of Wax remake; and while the IMDB lists Stephen Hopkins (The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, 2004) as the director, the project has apparently gone over to James Cox (Wonderland, 2003; that’s the one with Val Kilmer as legendary porn star John Holmes).
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