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Game, Set and Match for Dunst
Forget Venus or Serena.
The next Wimbledon powerhouse curtsying in Center Court will be none other than...Kirsten Dunst?
The actress, otherwise known as Peter Parker's love interest Mary Jane Watson in last summer's blockbuster Spider-Man, is volleying for her next big-screen adventure, a romantic comedy titled Wimbledon.
Dunst will play an up-and-coming American tennis ace named Lizzie who ends up falling in love with Peter (played by Paul Bettany from A Beautiful Mind). Pete's a British player beset by an embarrassingly low ranking on the pro tour who scores a wild card invitation to play at Wimbledon, the tennis world's most famous tournament held each June in Great Britain.
The film will be helmed by Richard Loncraine, whose credits include Richard III and The Gathering Storm, and produced by Working Title Films, the company that brought us such Brit hit comedies as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Billy Elliot, About a Boy and Bridget Jones's Diary.
As a warm up for her romantic role (the term "love" definitely won't be equated with "zero" on this one), Dunst reportedly attended last year's Wimbledon tourney and took in some Center Court matches from the Royal Box.
But before she can take to the baseline, however, the thesp--who turns 21 on April 30--must finish shooting on The Amazing Spider-Man, Sony Studio's highly anticipated sequel.
The second installment reteams her with star Tobey Maguire--the fearless webslinger who saves the world from the clutches of his arch-nemesis, freaky four-tentacled evil scientist, Dr. Otto Octavius, aka Doctor Octopus, or Doc Ock as Marvel Comic devotees lovingly call him.
Dunst's commitment to filming Wimbledon, which starts shooting this summer, nearly put a kink in the production schedule for the Spidey sequel.
Initially, director Sam Raimi and his crew were delayed from launching principal photography in January to accommodate Maguire, who had yet to wrap Seabiscuit, in which he plays jockey Red Pollard.
The horse-racing drama finally wrapped in February, but Maguire's bad back problems, exacerbated during Seabiscuit's production, added another hiccup to the radioactive superhero flick's start date.
In addition, the delays threatened to derail Dunst's participation, since filming on The Amazing Spider-Man threatened to run up against production on Wimbledon.
To give Raimi and company a little extra breathing room, Sony decided to push back the release date of the Spidey sequel from its originally scheduled May 2004 date to July 2, to take advantage of the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Whichever way you spin it, Dunst better get crackin' on that forehand.
Production on Wimbledon gets underway in June, and thanks to a deal Working Title has worked out with Wimbledon organizers, the filmmakers will be allowed to shoot some scenes simultaneously with this year's tournament, which runs June 23 through July 6. The majority of the flick will shoot at Wimbledon after the tourney, as well as at Shepparton Film Studios and locales around London.
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