Fantasia

Teresa Palmer, who recently hit the screen opposite Adam Sandler in Bedtime Stories, has landed the female lead in Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice. The actress joins the previously cast Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel. Jon Turteltaub is directing and Jerry Bruckheimer is producing. Mark Rosenthal (Mighty Joe Young), Matt Lopez (Bedtime Stories) and Lawrence Konner (Mona Lisa Smile) penned the screenplay. The live-action feature centers on an apprentice (Baruchel) who is left to tend to a magic workshop when his sorcerer master (Cage) leaves it in his hands. The apprentice gets a broomstick to do his chores for him, but things get out of control when the broom develops a mind of its own. The flick takes its cues from the classic Goethe and Paul Dukas-inpsired Mickey Mouse portion of Fantasia. Palmer is playing Baruchel's love interest. Turteltaub, Bruckheimer and Cage previously collaborated on the two National Treasure films.
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Bedtime Stories star Teresa Palmer is back in the Disney fold, having landed the female lead opposite Nicolas Cage and Knocked Up's Jay Baruchel, in the live action version of The Sorcerer's Apprentice.Inspired by part of Fantasia, the 1940 Disney animation, it will see Cage assume the role of the Sorcerer, with Baruchel stepping into Mickey Mouse's shoes as his apprentice and Palmer as his love interest.Fantasia laced together a series of animated shorts interpreting pieces of classical music, with The Sorcerer's Apprentice based on L'apprenti sorcier, written by Paul Dukas in 1897 and inspired by the ballad Der Zauberlehling written by poet Goethe in 1797 (see? Don't say we never learn you nuthin')The story centres on an apprentice magician left to care for the workshop in his master's absence, who runs into trouble when he enchants a broomstick to do his chores and finds that the magic goes slightly awry.

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Disney already has its testosterone for The Sorcerer's Apprentice with Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel, so now it's time for some estrogen eye candy. In comes Teresa Palmer...
Teresa Palmer for The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Walt Disney Pictures has picked up Teresa Palmer to star opposite Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel in The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Borrowing from the Mickey Mouse portion of Fantasia, the live-action feature centers on an apprentice (Baruchel) who is left to tend to a magic workshop when his sorcerer master (Cage) leaves it in his hands.

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