Vanessa Hudgens: 'Beastly' Beauty

Vanessa Hudgens is bringing a modern day Beauty to the big screen!

The 20-year-old former High School Musical sweetheart is set to play the fair maiden in the upcoming flick, Beastly, ET reports.

The movie will be set in Manhattan and the “Beast” is a handsome rich kid with a mean streak. When he ditches a date, the yet-to-be cast character turns out to be a witch who curses him to become everything he hates. The grotesque transformation leaves him with the seemingly impossible task of finding true love to break the ugly spell.

The film will shoot in Montreal in Summer/Fall 2009.

Vanessa has also been confirmed to star alongside Emily Browning and Jamie Chung in Zach Snyder‘s Sucker Punch.