Kristen Bell has a Thing for Astro Boy

From Heroes to Astro Boy? It would seem to, as news from SuperheroHype is that Kristen Bell (you may know her as Elle Bishop on Heroes, or Veronica Mars on the show, well, Veronica Mars) has landed the leading female role in the movie “Astro Boy”. Well, she’ll be landing her voice, anyway, as “Astro Boy” is a CGI animated movie. And not just any movie, either, a pretty big one, if the cast already assembled is any indication. They include Nicolas Cage, Donald Sutherland, Bill Nighy, Nathan Lane, Eugene Levy and Freddie Highmore as Astro Boy himself. Now that’s a cast!

More about the CGI flick from SHH:

Set in futuristic Metro City, Imagi Studios’ Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist to replace the son he has lost. Unable to fulfill the grieving father’s expectations, our hero embarks on a journey in search of acceptance, experiencing betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before he returns to save Metro City and reconcile with the man who had rejected him.

Bell is already the darling of geeks everywhere with the roles she’s chosen. Besides Heroes, she’s also starred in the aptly titled “Fanboys” movie, about Star Wars geeks, where she fulfilled every fanboy’s wet fantasy by dressing up as Slave Prince Leia, gold bikini included, of course.

“Astro Boy”, to be directed by David Bowers, is scheduled to land in theaters in 2009.