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Something about Carla Gugino is very foxy. I’m not sure if it’s the Old Hollywood aesthetics or her dressed as a superhero in Watchmen, but something is downright hot.

While we’re on the subject of Carla Gugnio, she has just been added to Zack Snyder’s (300, Watchmen) upcoming Warner Bros. drama Sucker Punch.

Centering on a girl (played by Emily Browning) who is placed into an insane asylum by her evil stepfather, the girl retreats into an alternate reality as she learns to cope with her new-found predicament.

Cugino will play a nurse who (what) becomes (for) a (it) a madam at a brothel in the girl’s alternate world.

The film also stars Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Jena Malone and Abbie Cornish.

Sucker Punch is targeting a March 2011 release and begins production this fall.

Many fans of Watchmen director Zack Snyder will be happy to know that he’s still going strong in the live action movie circuit, despite him helming the Warner Bros animated feature, Guardians of Ga’Hoole. His latest original creation, Sucker Punch, has finally found the actress to fit the bill for the lead role. Previously the role was offered to Mamma Mia’s Amanda Seyfried, but unfortunately the blue eyed actress had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts with the latest season of HBO’s Big Love. Now, Snyder has re-casted the lead to be Emily Browning (The Uninvited).

Sucker Punch is set in the 1950s, circling around a girl who is trying to hide from the pain caused by her evil stepfather and a lobotomy. She ends up in a mental institution and while in there starts to imagine an alternative reality. She plans to escape from that imaginary world, but to do that she needs to steal five objects before she is caught by a vile man. (Courtesy of IMDB)

Those among the cast so far are Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical 3), Evan Racheal Wood (The Wrestler) and Emma Stone (Superbad). The film is set to release on October 8, 2010.