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Toby Kebbell Joins the Evil Side of The Sorcerer's Apprentice

by Alex Billington
April 19, 2009

Up-and-coming British actor Toby Kebbell has joined the cast of the currently in-production film The Sorcerer's Apprentice for Disney. Kebbell will play a character named Drake Stone, a celebrity illusionist who joins forces with Alfred Molina's evil sorcerer, Horvath, to gain ultimate powers. As we already know, Nic Cage will star as the sorcerer Balthazar Blake and Jay Baruchel as his apprentice, in a story about a college student who is recruited to work reluctantly for said sorcerer and given a crash course in magic to help him battle dark forces in Manhattan. Jon Turteltaub is directing and Jerry Bruckheimer is producing.

For those not familiar with Toby Kebbell, he was last seen in Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla, as the character the movie was about - punk rocker Johnny Quid (see photo above). He also appeared in Control, Alexander, and Dead Man's Shoes. I wouldn't call this a chance for him to break out, but I'm betting everyone is going to wonder who this guy is once Sorcerer's Apprentice hits theaters. And speaking of hitting theaters, this is currently slated to arrive on July 16th, 2010, the same day as Christopher Nolan's Inception. Given this is currently shooting in New York City, I don't think we'll hear much more about casting, but who knows?

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