Thursday, April 18, 2013

Raffey Cassidy Is A Robot In Bird's "Tomorrowland"

THR is reporting that English actress Raffey Cassidy (Snow White and the Huntsman) has landed a key role in the super-secret pic "Tomorrowland".


Former "Lost" show runner and "Prometheus" writer Damon Lindelof and Jeff Jensen, wrote the script for a film that is said to be in the vein of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"

Cassidy will play a young robot who has been around for decades. She knows several fighting styles. She has a previous relationship with George Clooney who will play the film's hero, a bitter inventor. Hugh Laurie is going to play the bad guy

Key plot deets are being kept under wraps on the film that used to be titled "1952" Brad Bird's calling the shots.  In March HitFix posted a few deets

Lindelof and Bird produce the movie

The project is one of only very few non-Marvel, non-Pixar Animation Studios live-action films that Disney hopes to get into production this year.

The pic is set for a December 19th, 2014 release.

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