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Cristina Aguilera’s big-screen Burlesque](Burlesque (2010) - Movie | Moviefone) debut is already a pretty interesting mix. We’ve got the slight girl with the powerful pipes, plus Cher returning to Hollywood as a nightclub owner and Stanley Tucci as the man who turns Aguilera’s small-town girl “from bumpkin to bombshell.” (Please tell me she’s living in a lonely world.) But now, in a pretty wild twist, The Hollywood Reporter](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i731d7f0f9e7e4ab1001fbc71fa57ee47) posts that Kristen Bell is joining the action as her rival.
As the story goes, Aguilera’s girl has “a big-town voice” and “finds love and success in a Los Angeles neo-burlesque club, reminiscent of the nightclub in Bob Fosse’s Cabaret.” Bell enters the mix as Nikki, “the loose-cannon lead dancer and main attraction at the club who spirals out of control” when Aguilera steals the spotlight.
Now, there are a lot of women I could imagine battling Aguilera. At the top of the list would probably be Scarlett Johansson. But Bell – didn’t see this coming. Presumably, the rivalry is all in the dance, and not the song, but even then – nice twist for the geek princess and leading comedienne. But how will her burlesque be? A little slice of Showgirls? Striptease? Or maybe, just maybe, Reese Witherspoon’s Ivy Miller in Overnight Delivery? Better yet – Bell’s first big mainstream dramatic gig. How do you see this all playing out?
Production begins next month and is slated for a release during Thanksgiving, 2010.