Alfred Molina, who brought Spidey’s nemesis Doctor Octavius to life on the big-screen, will bring another villain to life on the big-screen. The actor has signed to play the villain in the upcoming Disney live-action version of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.”
The actor has signed on to play the evil magician Horvath in the Disney tentpole starring Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel. Jon Turteltaub is directing the film, and Jerry Bruckheimer is producing.
The story centers on an average college student (Baruchel) who is reluctantly recruited to work for a sorcerer named Balthazar Blake (Cage). The man gives him a crash course in the art and science of magic to prepare him for a battle against the forces of darkness in modern Manhattan.
Teresa Palmer also is in the cast, playing Baruchel’s love interest.
Executive producing are Cage and his Saturn Films partner Norm Golightly as well as Todd Garner, Barry Waldman and Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ Mike Stenson and Chad Oman.
The movie begins shooting this month in New York.
This can only be either awesome or horrible. No room for mediocrit-oh man I just realized I say “no room for mediocrity” an awful lot. That and “I gotta say.”