Italian actress – star of Shoot ‘Em Up and the French film Ne te retourne pas (Don’t Look Back, premiering this weekend at Cannes) – Monica Bellucci has signed on to join the cast of Disney’s family adventure film “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.”
The film already includes Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina, Teresa Palmer, Toby Kebbel, and Nicolas Cage, who is also exec producing.
Monica Bellucci is set to play Veronica, a sorceress and the long-lost love of Cage’s Balthazar Blake.
Directed by Jon Turteltaub, the film about a sorcerer who recruits and trains a young protege to fight forces of darkness in modern-day Manhattan is scheduled for a July 2010 release.
