Monica Bellucci, who appeared in “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Matrix Revolutions has joined the cast of Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer’s “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.”
She will play Veronica, a sorceress and the long-lost love of Nicolas Cage’s character, Balthazar Blake.
Pic, which revolves around a sorcerer who recruits and trains a young protege to help him fight the forces of darkness in modern-day Manhattan, is shooting in New York City with Jon Turteltaub at the helm.
Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina, Teresa Palmer and Toby Kebbell round out the cast.
Exec producing “Apprentice” are Cage and his Saturn Films partner Norm Golightly as well as Todd Garner, Barry Waldman and Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ Mike Stenson and Chad Oman.