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Variety<\/i> reports via ComingSoon.net<\/a> that AnnaSophia Robb \u2014 the young star of Because of Winn-Dixie<\/a><\/i> (my junket report<\/a>; my review<\/a>) and Tim Burton\u2019s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/a><\/i>, and a self-professed Christian \u2014 will co-star with Oscar-winner Hilary Swank in The Reaping<\/i>, a \u201csupernatural tale\u201d from Robert Zemeckis and Joel Silver\u2019s Dark Castle Entertainment, about a \u201cmyth debunker (Swank) who travels to a small, religious town in Texas to investigate occurrences that appear to be the 10 Biblical plagues.\u201d The most recent version of the script is by Chad and Carey Hayes, whose last film was the Paris Hilton-starring House of Wax<\/a><\/i> remake; and while the IMDB<\/a> lists Stephen Hopkins (The Life and Death of Peter Sellers<\/a><\/i>, 2004) as the director, the project has apparently gone over to James Cox (Wonderland<\/a><\/i>, 2003; that\u2019s the one with Val Kilmer as legendary porn star John Holmes).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"