Accepted‘s Justin Long – probably best known to date as Britney Spears’ boyfriend in the dire Crossroads or Linsay Lohan’s bloke in the not quite as awful Herbie: Fully Loaded – is a bit of a workaholic. Already completed is Idiocracy, for director Mike Judge (the creator of Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill), with Long in a relatively small role alongside Luke Wilson, who plays a bog-standard American frozen for 500 years, awaking to find himself the most intelligent person in the country, and Long is currently filming alongside Bruce Willis in Die Hard 4.
Long will also be taking the lead in Patriotville, as a lone guy fighting against his small town’s plan to build a casino on their historic battlefield, and voice the title character alongside in animated comedy The Tale of Despereaux forMike Johnson, co-director of Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride. Considering Long will be the lead alongside a voice cast that includes Robbie Coltrane, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver and William H Macy, it could yet prove to be the film that puts him firmly on the map. Shame we won’t see his face, really…
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