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