PacificCoastNews.comVanessa Hudgens better watch it: Mary-Kate Olsen has joined the cast of Beastly, a teen romance update on The Beauty & the Beast tale, according to Variety.
Olsen reportedly puts a curse on Alex Pettyfer, who then becomes everything he'd ever hoped not to be.
Can't wait for the novelization.
In other casting news sure to please kids who don't have the patience for Cliff's Notes:
• There's going to be a high school comedy retelling of The Scarlet Letter, says Variety. If nothing else, Easy A already makes the grade when it comes to casting: It's got everybody in it: Emma Stone, Amanda Bynes, Thomas Haden Church, Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson, Lisa Kudrow, Malcolm MacDowell, Penn Badgely and—hello!—Twilight's Cam Gigandet are among the featured actors.
• Sigourney Weaver is getting Disneyfied for You Again, playing a mean relative in the comedy starring Kristen Bell, per Variety. The former Alien battler is also in talks to join Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Seth Rogen in the E.T. comedy Paul.
• And in the week's least definitive but most intriguing casting news, Variety reports that noted Lakers fan Jack Nicholson is considering replacing Bill Murray in director James L. Brooks' as-yet untitled romantic comedy starring Paul Rudd, Reese Witherspoon and Owen Wilson.
Details forthcoming, though probably after the NBA Finals have concluded.