A while back we talked about Brendan Fraser and Paul Bettany signing up for Inkheart, New Line's first film in an adaptation of author Cornelia Funke's planned trilogy.
Now Variety tells us that the Andy Serkis and Helen Mirren have also joined the cast of the film, about a bookbinder who can bring literary characters to life just by reading their stories aloud.
Serkis will play the nefarious Capricorn, whose band of rogues captures the bookbinder (Fraser) and carries him off to Literary Land while it's up to the bookbinder's daughter to rescue him. Mirren will play book collector Elinor Loredan.
And it turns out, at some point Jim Broadbent joined the cast, but I must have missed that when it was originally announced. You all know I love Jim Broadbent. Last I knew he was going to appear in Hairspray.
