Kirsten Dunst (“Spider-Man” films) is set to star in writer/director Lars von Trier’s sci-fi disaster film Melancholia.
Penelope Cruz was previously in negotiations for the role before she took the role of Blackbeard’s daughter in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides instead.
Melancholia will shoot July through September in Southern Sweden.
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, Alexander Skarsgård, Stellan Skarsgård and Udo Kier are also attached to roles.
