Actress Diane Kruger has signed on to star in The Host for Summit Entertainment and director Andrew Niccol.

The project is based on Stephenie Meyer’s novel of the same name, which centers on parasitic alien creatures called Souls who can take over a human body. Saoirse Ronan stars as a young soldier who is taken over by a Soul dubbed The Wanderer, although the soldier puts up a fight, refusing to let go of her identity. The Wanderer becomes obsessed with the soldiers memories, and sets out to find her boyfriend and lost brother. Diane Kruger will portray The Seeker, who tracks down The Wanderer.

Andrew Niccol will direct from his own screenplay, which is adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s novel. Max Irons, Jake Abel, and William Hurt also star. It isn’t known when production will begin on The Host.

The Host comes to theaters March 29th, 2013 and stars Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons, Jake Abel, William Hurt, Diane Kruger. The film is directed by Andrew Niccol. (Source)

I’ve added some gorgeous new production stills from Diane’s upcoming film, Farewell My Queen into the gallery. Set in Versailles in July 1789, Diane will portray the iconic French queen, Marie Antoinette. Head over to the gallery for the latest additions.

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The world premiere of Benoît Jacquot’s Farewell My Queen (Les Adieux à La Reine) will open the 62nd Berlin Film Festival.

The screen adaptation of Chantal Thomas’ prize-winning novel of the same name stars Diane Kruger, Léa Seydoux and Virginie Ledoyen and examines the first days of the French Revolution from the perspective of the servants at Versailles. Set in 1789, revolution is imminent. Behind the facades of the royal palaces, everyone is thinking of fleeing, including Queen Marie Antoinette (Kruger) and her entourage, including her reader Sidonie Laborde (Seydoux).

Meryl Streep has also been named by the festival as the recipient of an Honorary Golden Bear. The 16-time Oscar nominee, who has starred in more than 40 films, will receive the award at a screening of her latest work The Iron Lady at the Berlinale Palast. (Source)

Thank you to my friend Holly, we now have screen captures from the 2009 film, Mr. Nobody in the gallery! Diane looks beautiful with the darker hue! Head over to the gallery for the latest additions.

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The official trailer for Diane’s latest film, Special Forces has been released. In the film, Diane plays a French journalist kidnapped by the kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan. No US release date has yet been set.

In Special Forces Diane Kruger plays a French journalist kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Shot in Tajikistan, the French-language role is another that displays the German-born star’s penchant for changing nationalities, accents and languages. Last time out, in the action thriller Unknown, the 35-year-old played a Bosnian taxi driver. Also on her increasingly illustrious CV are turns as a German actress spying for the British in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, and speaking German in the 2005 First World War hit Joyeux Noel She played a Chicago resident in Wicker Park and got her big break playing Helen opposite Brad Pitt in Troy.

“I always said that was my big dream as an actor, to be between two chairs,” she says about her jump from studio films to more independent fare. “I never wanted to be typecast as a nationality. This does have the result of consistently having to do more work for a role, to be able to speak without an accent in English, to be able to speak with all different kinds of accents playing other nationalities or when I speak in French or German.”

There is though, one accent the actress admits that she is afraid to try: “Scottish, oh my god, that would be hard.” She adds, in English that betrays no hint of her German roots: “It’s all a matter of rehearsal. You can learn any accent you want. It’s a fascinating thing.” Her skill with accents doesn’t extend to impressions, though. “I’m not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people. I can do Karl very well, Karl Lagerfeld, because he speaks the same in every language.”

She doesn’t give a rendition of her Lagerfeld, sadly but adds: “He’s like my stepfather, I love Karl. He’s the funniest person I know. He’s a big inspiration actually.”

Kruger got to know Lagerfeld after she began modelling in Paris, aged 15. Her move to the French capital as a teenager came after a tumultuous couple of years. Born in the tiny hamlet of Algermissen, near Hanover, her parents divorced when she was 13. Her father worked as a cinema projectionist and her mother in a bank. She stayed with her mother, pursuing a career in ballet, but after auditioning for the Royal Ballet in London an injury put paid to her dancing dreams.

“From my modelling days, I have relationships with all these people and it’s kind of a cool thing that I still do that as well. It’s better these days as I now have more of a say in what I do and so I don’t sign with people that I don’t stand behind… It’s very cool to be the face of a perfume, that’s a very flattering thing. When Calvin Klein asked me to be the face of a perfume called Beauty I was like, ‘who are you kidding?’ when they told me the name. I was thinking people are going to say, ‘who does she think she is from Helen of Troy to Beauty?’ Then with all the work I’ve done for cosmetics companies too it becomes very global.”

She prefers to work on campaigns for products that are aimed at the High Street: “I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.”

This seems to sum up Kruger. From afar and in magazines, she seems to belong to a high-end glamorous, unobtainable world, but she really is just one of the girls. (Source)

Horizons, a scifi tale taking place in a post-apocalyptic world, is having no trouble getting actors interested. Tom Cruise is already attached and Jessica Chastain of The Help has been cast, but there is still one other major part to be filled.

They need someone for the other female lead, and according to Deadline, it’s down to Hayley Atwell, Diane Kruger and Kate Beckinsale. Apparently the three headlining actresses will be reading this weekend, after which one will have to be chosen.

The three female contenders are: Hayley Atwell from Captain America: The First Avenger, Diane Kruger from Inglourious Basterds and Kate Beckinsale from Underworld. So in other words, all three actresses have impressive film credits.

The role to be filled is of a woman who crashes on earth and meets with Tom Cruise’s character. In this world people typically live in the clouds — as earth is no longer welcoming to life — and there ought to be some alien fun as well.

Director Joseph Kosinski is the originator of the idea for Horizons, previously titled Oblivion. He had it published first as a graphic novel, but with the hope that it would be made into a movie down the line when he was no longer caught up in other projects. (Source)

To celebrate the release of Drive, starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan, finally hitting UK cinema screens today, WhatCulture.com thought it would be the perfect time to run down the 10 Greatest Cinematic Car Chases!

#9. Unknown (2011)
This Hitchcockian style thriller is an absorbing watch that features a dramatic and suspenseful chase sequence in the middle of the narrative. Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger have been thrown together through an earlier car crash and here they escape Kruger’s flat with an assassin in hot pursuit. With Neeson behind the wheel of the car – a man who’s identity is being denied by his own wife – the scene is relatively realistic, as he attempts to dodge the hired killer and his VW SUV in a Mercedes taxi. As the assassin dodges and weaves through traffic, Neeson is forced to drive like he’s never driven before, as his everyman character has to take on heroic and super-skilled driving abilities.

The Pascal Chaumeil directed film, Fly Me to the Moon has officially begun filming! The movie stars Diane alongside Dany Boon and Etienne Chicot and has an expected release for late 2012.

A successful woman in love tries to break her family curse of every first marriage ending in divorce, by dashing to the alter with a random stranger before marrying her boyfriend.

Internet Movie Database has a new upcoming rumored project listed for Diane. Accoring to IMDb, Diane will be staring alongside Dany Boon in the film, Fly Me to the Moon. “Fly Me to the Moon” has been slated for a 2012 release. Take a look at the synopsis below:

A successful woman in love tries to break her family curse of every first marriage ending in divorce, by dashing to the alter with a random stranger before marrying her boyfriend.

Please be advised, IMDb is a user-updated website, nothing posted is official. If this new project turns out to be legitimate, the film will be directed by Pascal Chaumeil and is written by Laurent Zeitoun.