| Australian actress Emily Browning is moving up in the world - she's bagged the lead role in Zack Snyder's Watchmen follow-up, Sucker Punch. Browning, last seen in middling horror film, The Uninvited, will take the role of a girl who constructs an alternate reality in an attempt to escape from a mental asylum. It was the role that had been offered to Mamma Mia! star, Amanda Seyfried. No word on what happened with Seyfried, but her loss may well be Browning's gain. The 20 year-old, who played young Violet in the ill-fated Lemony Snicket's An Unfortunate Series Of Events, now heads up a cast that is to hot young actresses what Stallone's The Expendables is to grizzled old action relics: Vanessa Hudgens, Emma Stone, Evan Rachel Wood, and fellow Aussie Abbie Cornish have already signed on to a movie that Snyder describes as Alice in Wonderland with machine guns. We are so there. Snyder, who co-wrote the original script with Steve Shibuya, will direct and produce the Warner Bros. film with his missus, Deborah Snyder. Filming is set to start in September.
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