Casting Call: Jackman's a 'Showman,' Gugino hits 'Sucker Punch,' Zahn gets 'Wimpy'

For Hugh Jackman, there's never a time to not sell it.

Jackman, who signed on to "Avon Man" earlier this month, will now prove there really is a sucker born every minute, according to Variety: The Aussie star will be playing American hustler P.T. Barnum in a musical called "The Greatest Showman on Earth."

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The project is still in its earliest stages, though word is Anne Hathaway is being courted for the role of Barnum's love, singer Jenny Lind.

"Watchmen" co-star Carla Gugino has re-teamed with that movie's director, Variety says. The pair will work together on "Sucker Punch," in which a young woman (Emily Browning) in an asylum creates a rich fantasy world to help escape. Gugino will play a nurse.

Gugino's involvement maintains that film's all-female cast. Also on board are "High School Musical 3" star Vanessa Hudgens, "Stop-Loss" co-star Abbie Cornish and "The Soloist's" Jena Malone.

Steve Zahn probably doesn't like being called wimpy, but he has signed on to play a father figure in "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid." The movie, based on Jeff Kinney's 2007 novel, follows the titular kid as he makes his way through the cruelties of junior high school.

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