Dakota Fanning (
War of the Worlds) has joined the cast of forthcoming film,
The Last of Robin Hood, written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland (
The Fluffer). The new film centres on the last days in the life of legendary Hollywood actor Errol Flynn and stars Kevin Kline (
A Fish Called Wanda) as the Hollywood legend. According to
Deadline, Fanning has been cast as Flynn’s teenage girlfriend and fellow actress Beverly Aadland in the biopic. Susan Sarandon is also set to star as Beverly’s mother, who accused Flynn of starting a sexual relationship with her daughter when Beverly was 15.
Fanning most recently appeared in
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 and her new film
Very Good Girls which also stars Elizabeth Olsen has only just recently premiered at The Sundance Film Festival.
Very Good Girls centres on two New York City girls (Fanning and Olsen) pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. Things start to get a tad messy when they both fall for the same person. Fanning will also soon star in Richard Laxton’s (
An Englishman in New York) new film
Effie.
