Angelina Jolie will star as the queen of darkness in BEOWULF, director Robert Zemeckis latest feature that will rely on the same performance capture technique at Sony Pictures Imageworks (Imagemotion) used on THE POLAR EXPRESS and next summers MONSTER HOUSE, reports VARIETY.
Distribution may wind up at Paramount domestically and Warner Bros. internationally.
Jolie will play the queen that tempts the Viking that would be king. Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Brendan Gleeson, Robin Wright Penn and John Malkovich.
Steve Bings Shangri-La Ent. will produce. The script is by Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman, with Zemeckis producing with his ImageMovers partners Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke. The screenwriters exec produce with Martin Shafer.
Bill Desowitz, former editor of VFXWorld, is currently the Crafts Editor of IndieWire.
