Wednesday 23 August 2000
By eBroadcast Staff and agencies.

What do you do when you can't come up with the perfect woman to play your title character?

You invent her!

Andrew Niccol, the man behind the sci-fi movie Gattaca, has opted to cast a computer-generated leading lady opposite Al Pacino for his next film, Simone, after failing to find the right female actor. Niccol will use the technology used in the soon to be released Final Fantasy to make the computerised human look realistic.

Simone is due to start shooting next month.