Danielle Panabaker, one of the cast members of
Shark, will be gracing the silver screen next year with a coming of age sports drama written and directed by Rusty Gorman called
Home of the Giants. The 20-year-old actress will be joining Haley Joel Osment (
Sixth Sense, Pay it Forward) as the lead.
Home of the Giants is a story about friendship and basketball, centering on a high school journalist named Gar (Osment). He covers the school's basketball team as it heads toward a state championship but things go awry when his best friend, Matt (Ryan Merriman), who is also the basketball team's main “star,” is asked by his brother Keith (Kenneth Mitchell), to steal money from a drug dealer's home. As Matt partakes in the heist, Gar tags along and inevitably gets caught in the middle.
In the movie, the
Shark actress plays Bridgette Bachman, a new student in Gar's journalism class. She is described as intelligent and skeptical yet she doesn't understand the importance of basketball in the community. She challenges what she thinks is Gar's hero worship and the prominent status the team enjoys.
Though presently exposed on television, Panabaker has already had her share of movie projects, including
Sky High, Mr. Brooks, and
Rule Number One. She has also been cast in TV movies like
Stuck in the Suburbs, Sex & the Single Mom and
No Place Like Home.
Also included in the cast of
Home of the Giants are Brent Briscoe, Eugene Osment, Kathleen LaGue, Ashlee Payne, and Michael Harding, just to name a few.
The upcoming movie, which is set in Indiana, has already finished filming and is waiting for release in 2008. For now, fans can catch Danielle Panabaker as Julie Stark, Sebastian Stark's (
James Woods) daughter on the series
Shark every Sunday at 10pm ET/PT on CBS.
-Kris De Leon, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: IMDB
(Image courtesy of homeofthegiants.com)