Amanda Seyfried joins Lasse Hallstrom ‘Dear John’

Amanda Seyfried will follow “Mamma Mia!” with a starring gig in “Dear John,” the Lasse Hallstrom-directed adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks bestseller.
Seyfried joins Channing Tatum in the pic and will play a young woman who meets and falls in love with a soldier while he’s on leave.

Jamie Linden wrote the script.

Relativity is fully financing the film, which begins shooting Oct. 13 in South Carolina. Screen Gems will distribute domestically.

- from Variety

Amanda Seyfried: From ‘Mean Girl’ To Meryl Streep’s Daughter

From MTV:

When 22-year-old Amanda Seyfried was growing up, the songs of disco-era Swedish pop group ABBA weren’t exactly on her radar.

“I remember when the A*Teens did ‘Dancing Queen’ — that’s it,” she said. “That’s all I knew. I wasn’t really interested in knowing more, I guess. I was too into ‘NSYNC.”

Now, more than a decade after she auditioned for the title role in “Annie” on Broadway to no avail, she’s playing the central character, Sophie, in “Mamma Mia!,” the movie adaptation of the Broadway musical based on the catchy tunes of ABBA.

Probably best known to moviegoers as the hollow-headed Karen in “Mean Girls” (and to HBO subscribers as Sarah on “Big Love”), Seyfried has now become one of Hollywood’s “it” girls, appearing alongside current hot young things Blake Lively, Emma Roberts and Kristen Stewart on the cover of August’s Vanity Fair. She’ll co-star with Megan Fox, Adam Brody and Amy Sedaris in “Jennifer’s Body,” the comedy/horror film written by “Juno” scribe Diablo Cody. And though she must share the “Mamma Mia!” spotlight with film luminaries such as Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth, it is Amanda’s happy face, after all, that adorns those billboards you’ve been seeing all over town.