Amanda Seyfried will star opposite Russell Crowe in a new relationship drama from The Pursuit of Happyness director Gabriele Muccino, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Fathers and Daughters sees the Mamma Mia! actor as a young woman pondering the travails of her current relationship as she also recalls the time she spent with her father, a famous author, 25 years earlier. Crowe secured a deal to play the novelist earlier this week.

Seyfried, 27, recently starred in Lovelace, a biopic of the troubled porn star Linda Lovelace, and as Cosette in the Oscar-winning musical Les Misérables. She is due to take a lead role in Seth MacFarlane's spoof western A Million Ways to Die in the West, and will feature in the post-apocalyptic literary adaptation Z for Zachariah in 2015.

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