“I’m.mortal” just keeps getting better. First it was revealed that the movie would mark director Andrew Niccol’s return to sci-fi. Then Amanda Seyfried joined the cast, followed by Justin Timberlake (who is still in negotiations). Now, “Inception” actor Cillian Murphy is in “final negotiations” to join the cast as well, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The story is set in a future where the aging gene has been discovered and switched off. To prevent overpopulation, people now spend time the way we do money, on luxuries and necessities. Timberlake (if cast) will play a poor man who suddenly ends up with a fortune in time to spend. This leads to him becoming the target of a murder investigation; while on the run, he kidnaps a wealthy, young heiress (Seyfried). Murphy is up for a role playing an officer of the Timekeepers, which sounds like some sort of law enforcement body. Between Niccol and the cast that’s firming up, “I’m.mortal” is sounding like it’s going to be a good time.

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Just the other week we found out Amanda Seyfried secured the prime female role in I’m.mortal, a girl living in a future world in which aging stops at 25. Time has taken the place of cash, so the rich are immortal while the rest just need to do whatever it takes to survive. Timberlake’s role would be that of a ghetto-dweller who’s wrongly accused of killing a rich man for his time. He goes on the run from the “time keepers” and opts to take a hostage with him, Seyfried’s character.

Minus the unnecessary punctuation mark in the middle of the film’s title, I’m loving everything about this project. There’s something very Gattaca-esque about the concept and considering Andrew Niccol is responsible for the I’m.mortal script and will be the man behind the lens, we should be in good shape. As for the stars, Seyfried has run into her fair share of poor material, namely Letters to Juliet and Dear John, but it’s likely this one will be on the darker side and Chloe and Jennifer’s Body certainly prove she can handle that.

Most don’t really look at Timberlake and think he’s a serious actor, but The Social Network seems to have the power to change all of that. He was also pretty good in 2006′s Alpha Dog. As for The Love Guru, let’s just pretend that never happened. Assuming Timberlake accepts the offer, I’d like to still have high hopes for I’m.mortal.

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Amanda Seyfried wants to become immortal. The actress is set to topline New Regency’s sci-fi action thriller, “I’m.mortal,” from writer-director Andrew Niccol. Twentieth Century Fox will distribute the film, also described as an action love story.

“I’m.mortal” revolves around a society in which aging stops at the age of 25–meaning that every role in “mortal” will be played by actors in their mid-20s.

New Regency picked up the high-priority project this spring. Niccol is expected to begin lensing this year. Eric Newman and Marc Abraham are producing via their Strike Entertainment. Strike’s Kristel Laiblin is exec producing.

In “I’m.mortal,” time has become the currency. Once you turn 25 and your aging gene turns off, you must buy and bank time. If you are rich enough, you can live forever. But if you run out of time, you are engineered to die automatically.

When a rebel from the ghetto is falsely accused of murdering a wealthy man for his time, he is forced to go on the run with a beautiful, rich hostage (Seyfried). Together, this duo rages against the system, living minute to minute. They discover that love is more powerful than all the time in the world.

Seyfried (“Mamma Mia!“) stars in Warner Bros.’ upcoming “Red Riding Hood,” from director Catherine Hardwicke. She was last in theaters with “Letters to Juliet” and “Dear John.”

Lead male hasn’t yet been cast.

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Amanda Seyfried is intent on having a career similar to two-time Oscar winning actress Meryl Streep.

Amanda Seyfried dreams of having Meryl Streep’s career.

The ‘Dear John‘ actress – who made her big screen debut in cult Lindsay Lohan movie ‘Mean Girls‘ – claims she would like to tread a career path similar to multi-Oscar winning actress Meryl, although admits so would many others in her profession.

She said: “I would like to be one of those actresses who can do anything. I would like to be like Meryl Streep some day, but then I don’t know many people in this business who don’t have that goal.”

Discussing her upcoming appearance as the titular character in Catherine Hardwicke’s big screen adaptation of ‘Red Riding Hood‘, Amanda reveals it will be different from what many expect.

She told Total Film magazine: “Catherine has a very vivid, clear idea, a beautiful idea of what she wants us to be.

“Very gothic, very dark and unlike ‘Twilight’.”

Amanda will star alongside Gary Oldman, Julie Christie and Lukas Haas, which is due for release in April 2011.

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Continuing to push forth with a busy big screen career, recent reports tell that Amanda Seyfried has signed on to star as Cinderella.

The “Letters to Juliet” actress is said to be assuming the always-popular role in a live-action film written by Aline Brosh McKenna of “27 Dresses” and “Devil Wears Prada”.

With a release date looking to fall in 2013, Amanda can be seen much sooner in the Catherine Hardwicke directed film “Red Riding Hood”.

Set for an April 2011 release date, “Red Riding Hood” is “set in a medieval village that is haunted by a werewolf, during which a young girl falls for an orphaned woodcutter, much to her family’s displeasure.”

The nominations for this years Teen Choice Awards are out and “Dear John”, “Letters to Juliet” and “Jennifer’s Body” haveseven nominations in total! Amanda herself is up for “Choice Movie Actress: Romantic Comedy” and “Choice Movie Actress: Drama”.

Choice Movie: Drama
“The Blind Side”
“Dear John”
“The Last Song”
“Remember Me”
“The Runaways”

Choice Movie Actor: Drama
Jake Gyllenhaal, “Brothers”
Tobey Maguire, “Brothers”
Robert Pattinson, “Remember Me”
Jeremy Renner, “The Hurt Locker”
Channing Tatum, “Dear John”

Choice Movie Actress: Drama
Sandra Bullock, “The Blind Side”
Miley Cyrus, “The Last Song”
Dakota Fanning, “The Runaways”
Amanda Seyfried, “Dear John”
Kristen Stewart, “The Runaways”

Choice Movie: Romantic Comedy
“The Back-up Plan”
“Just Wright”
“Letters to Juliet”
“The Proposal”
“Valentine’s Day”

Choice Movie Actress: Romantic Comedy
Kristen Bell, “When in Rome”
Sandra Bullock, “The Proposal”
Queen Latifah, “Valentine’s Day” / “Just Wright”
Jennifer Lopez, “The Back-up Plan”
Amanda Seyfried, “Letters to Juliet”

Choice Movie Actor: Horror/Thriller
Penn Badgley, “The Stepfather”
Adam Brody, “Jennifer’s Body”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “Shutter Island”
Jackie Earle Haley, “A Nightmare on Elm Street”
Micah Sloat, “Paranormal Activity”

Choice Movie Actress: Horror/Thriller
Katie Cassidy, “Nightmare on Elm Street”
Megan Fox, “Jennifer’s Body”
Audrina Patridge, “Sorority Row”
Michelle Williams, “Shutter Island”
Rumer Willis, “Sorority Row”

On Amanda’s IMDb.com page it says she’s in the talks for the Disney movie Cinderella, that will be released in 2013. I found this article at Aceshowbiz.com with some information about the movie itself…

A fairy tale princess will come to life should Disney move forward with its plan creating a live action version of “Cinderella”. Deadline is reporting that there has been a surge of interest in adapting classics into live action since the success of “Alice in Wonderland”. Disney is not one to fall behind the trend.

A 7-figure deal is currently made for a project which will be led by Aline Brosh McKenna in the writing department. McKenna is known as the scribe of romcoms such as “The Devil Wears Prada” and “27 Dresses”. Meanwhile, “Jumper” and “X-Men: First Class” producer Simon Kinberg will back up the project. Together they have once worked on the production rewrite of “Date Night”.

The classic version of “Cinderella” is first made by Disney in 1950, telling the story of an unfortunate girl dreaming of a prince. The story has been adapted as a spine in a number of feature films such as “Ever After” and “A Cinderella Story”. However, it is not yet known whether this live-action version will bend from its original story or whether it would be made in 3-D.

Amanda Seyfried says she has stopped “having expectations” because she has had her heart broken too many times before.

The 24-year-old actress never lets herself think about the future because she has found that even a “tiny spark of expectation” can leave her devastated when things don’t turn out the way she had planned. She now just “jumps into” things without considering them so she isn’t “intimidated” by the prospect of failure.

“I never have expectations anymore. I stopped having expectations as a teenager because of, you know, heartbreak. And disappointment,” she explained. “I’m intimidated so much of the time. And I’ve learned that even a tiny spark of expectation, is so wrong.

“You just have to go into whatever is. But I end up being too intimidated. So I just came in with that attitude. I just didn’t want to be intimidated. Because it hinders me so much.”

Amanda can next be seen in upcoming romantic comedy Letters to Juliet, which is about an American student who finds love during a holiday to Italy. The film also stars Mexican heartthrob Gael Garcia Bernal and Vanessa Redgrave and their involvement made Amanda desperate to sign up.

“It’s funny; it’s not the type of movie I would normally want to do because it’s pretty broad, and light,” she explained to Irish film website movies.ie. “But it became so much more for me, especially after Vanessa Redgrave signed on. Even though it’s just this romantic movie.”

Amanda Seyfried is not a fan of kissing her co-stars on movie sets, claiming it is ”really annoying”.

The 24-year-old actress – who is currently in an on/off relationship with British hunk Dominic Cooper – admits she hates locking lips with her colleagues for film storylines and would rather save these “intimate” gestures for personal moments.

She said: “I had to kiss eight guys in one weekend. I was screen testing for the two characters that are playing opposite me. It’s really annoying – an intimate thing you have to do with people you don’t want to be intimate with.”

However, the pretty blonde star was able to see the funny side of it when film bosses teased her about kissing session by sending her an amusing package.

She laughed: “As a joke, the studio sent me a basket containing Listerine mouthwash and Tic Tac mints.”

The actress has had a busy few months with five films being release since the beginning of 2009.

However, Amanda is determined not to become typecast into a role.

She told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “I’m never going to be on one path. ‘Dear John‘ and ‘Letters To Juliet‘ were shot about a year apart but are coming out in the same four-month period. That was a mistake.”

Amanda Seyfried has said that she insulted Leonardo DiCaprio by asking him to play her father in her new film.

The actress, who is filming the DiCaprio-produced The Girl in the Red Riding Hood, was however rejected by the actor.

“Unfortunately he’s not in it. I asked him if he would play my dad but he got insulted!” she told The Mirror. “He said, ‘I don’t do male leads in love stories anymore’. And I said, ‘I wasn’t talking about the male leads, I was talking about my dad. You’re what, 35? Age yourself up a bit!’”

The Dear John star also revealed that because of her shyness, she once blanked Harrison Ford when they were stuck in a lift together.

“I can’t connect to fame yet. One day I will – when I get used to it. You know, I was in an elevator with Harrison Ford and in order to respect his privacy, I didn’t even look at him, which was really stupid of me. Why not say something like, ‘Hey dude, I grew up with you. You’re amazing. Nice to meet you’. Why can’t I say that? I don’t know. I was nervous.”