The Sorcerer's Apprentice is an upcoming Disney family adventure film directed by Jon Turteltaub, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and starring Nicolas Cage, Monica Bellucci and Jay Baruchel. It is a live action re-imagining of the famed Sorcerer's Apprentice segment in Disney's Fantasia, which in turn is based on the late 1890s symphonic poem by Paul Dukas and 1797 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ballad. The film is set to be released on July 16, 2010.

Plot

An average college student (Jay Baruchel) is reluctantly recruited to work for a sorcerer (Nicolas Cage), who gives him a crash course in the art and science of magic to prepare him for a battle against the forces of darkness in modern Manhattan.

Cast

• Nicolas Cage plays a sorcerer named Balthazar Blake.
• Jay Baruchel plays an average college student who becomes his apprentice.
• Teresa Palmer plays the love interest of Baruchel's character.
• Alfred Molina plays an evil magician named Horvath.
• Toby Kebbell plays a celebrity illusionist named Drake Stone, who joins forces with Horvath.
• Monica Bellucci plays a sorceress named Veronica, the long-lost love of Balthazar Blake.

Production

On February 12, 2007, this film was announced by Disney. In the early morning hours of May 4, 2009, a Ferrari F430 being driven during filming of a chase sequence, lost control and careened into the window of a Sbarro restaurant in Times Square, injuring two pedestrians, one of whom was struck by a falling lamppost. Filming resumed the following night, when yet another accident occurred. The two accidents were blamed on rain making the roads slick.

File:MovieSourcerersApprenticeNYCBowlingGreenSet.JPG|Stairs and walkways were built over an existing fountain for a scene in Bowling Green park in Manhattan (seen looking southwestFile:FilmSourcerersApprenticeNYBowlingGreenSetFromNorth060709.JPG|Another view of the fountain, looking directly southFile:FilmLightingEquipmentLowerBroadwayNYC060709.JPG|Lighting equipment parked on lower Broadway, DowntownFile:FilmSourcerersApprenticeParkedLightingTruck060709.JPG|Commerce continues behind lighting equipmentFile:FilmLocationTemporaryNoParkingSign060709.JPG|Temporary sign on Beaver Street, half a block east of Bowling Green

References

1. The Hollywood Reporter - Dis has Cage conjured up for 'Sorcerer'
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