Posted by Adam

Thursday February 25, 2010

FREIDA Pinto will play an oracle priestess in her next film role.

The actress — who shot to fame on the critically-acclaimed, Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire — has joined the cast of Henry Cavill‘s War Of The Gods movie.

Pinto will take on the role of Phaedra, who teams up with warrior Theseus (Cavill) in an attempt to stop an epic battle with the immortal Greek gods.

Tarsem Singh is directing the film for Universal, with 300 producers Mark Canton and Gianni Nunnari involved behind the scenes, according to industry trade rag Variety.

“It’s turning into, basically, Caravaggio meets Fight Club,” Singh says of the project. “It’s a really hardcore action film done in Renaissance painting style. I want to see how that goes; it’s turned into something really cool. This guy who I really love, who’s the only one person in it right now, is the brother in The Tudors, Henry Cavill.

“I’m going for a very contemporary look on top of that so I’m kind of going with, you know, Renaissance time with electricity. So it’s a bit like Baz Luhrman doing Romeo + Juliet in Mexico; it’s just talking a particular Greek tale and half contemporising it and telling it.”

The film starts shooting in April.

Pinto, 25, recently revealed that drinking lots of water keeps her looking young.

Dev Patel and Freida Pinto

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