Competing with today's Wolverine sequel news for least-surprising-story-ever is the revelation that Christina Aguilera is set to make her live-action film debut in a film called Burlesque. What's that? You thought she'd made that one already? Nope, that was just every video she's ever done.
Aguilera will play an "ambitious small-town girl with a big voice" who finds love, family and success in a burlesque bar in LA. We're assured that this will seem like it came straight out of Bob Fosse, rather than being in any way seedy. It will be Aguilera's film debut, apart from some voice work in Shark Tale, and comes from the same studio that recently saw great success from the Beyonce-starring Obsessed, spotting a gap in the market for popstar-led films.
We are also guessing, however, that it will at least manage to be a tiny bit raunchier than Mary Elizabeth Winstead's take on the same subject, in the PG-rated Make It Happen, which shares almost exactly the same plot as this one but centres around a burlesque club where no-one ever gets too naked and where most of the audience is female. But we're sure this will communicate the same message that being a stripper is empowering and all about girl power and in no way a sad indictment of our still-sexist society, so that's OK then.
The film's been written and is set to be directed by Steve Antin, probably best known for playing one of the bullies in The Goonies and as one of the executive producers behind those endless Pussycat Doll reality shows. Erin Brockovich's Susannah Grant did a polish of the script.