The Playlist is reporting that Diane Kruger has joined the cast of Stephanie Meyer’s THE HOST. She joins Saoirse Ronan. I’m reserving judgement on this one yet, but the cast is getting stronger and stronger.
Kruger joins “The Host,” a big screen adapation of the novel by Stephenie Meyer. The story is set in the near future where alien parasite “souls” benevolently take over the consciousness of humans. One such “soul” named Wanderer inhabits the body of a dying woman, Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan), who just happens to be obsessed with finding the last group of surviving humans. Kruger will play The Seeker, who is tasked with converting Melanie who is a rebel soldier, in the hopes of quashing the movement
