At the junket for Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, ComingSoon.net learned from actress Teresa Palmer that she’s not going to be appearing in George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, the planned relaunch of Miller’s breakthrough sci-fi action thriller, this one starring Tom Hardy in the role of Mad Max.

“I’m not [in it], actually,” Palmer said, “That’s just a rumor that has been on the internet.”

Despite the dismissal of the casting as a rumor, Palmer’s name was first mentioned in January when her co-star Jay Baruchel was talking to press for How to Train Your Dragon and told The Herald Sun:

“She gets to work with him, and she’s (going to be) doing Mad Max 4 with Miller,” Baruchel said, adding, “She’s the main chick in Fury Road. She’s going to be there for over a year. It’s really, really cool.”

Does this mean that Mad Max: Fury Road has another opening for a female role or was Palmer up for the role that eventually went to Adelaide Clemens, something that changed after Baruchel’s statement? Instead, Palmer is currently shooting D.J. Caruso’s sci-fi flick I Am Number Four outside of Pittsburgh for its release on February 18, 2011.

From On Location Vacations:

I Am Number Four, starring Glee’s Dianna Agron, will be filming near 1200 2nd St, Beaver, PA overnight tonight.

ComingSoon.net has your exclusive first look at the new TV Spot for Walt Disney Pictures’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice that aired during the Lost finale on ABC this past Sunday. You can watch the spot here.

It shows Teresa in the spot but unfortunately her scenes are not new.

Disney is doing a Sorcerer’s Apprentice related Q&A with Teresa. The first installment is now online and may be viewed here. Hopefully they’ll add more soon.

Here’s a brief catch up on all of Teresa’s current and upcoming projects:

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – The film is currently in post-production and releases July 16, 2010 in North America. More release dates available here.

Young Americans – The project has been postponed so many times and is currently scheduled to open January 28, 2011 in North America. Here’s to hoping it’ll finally see the light of day next year!

D.J. Caruso’s I Am Number Four is Teresa Palmer’s next film, in which she plays Number Six. It is scheduled to begin principal photography next month in Pittsburgh.

Mad Max: Fury Road stars Teresa Palmer, Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Zoe Kravitz and Nicholas Hoult. According to The Playlist Nation, it will be undergoing a post-production 3D conversion before its planned 2011 release. Mad Max is scheduled to start filming in August.

Dianna Agron, one of the stars of red-hot Fox series Glee, has nabbed the female romantic lead in I Am Number Four, the big-screen adaptation of the upcoming young-adult science-fiction book by James Frey and Jobie Hughes.

DreamWorks’ Four revolves around a group of nine aliens who escaped their home planet just before it was annihilated by a rival species. Hiding out on Earth, the title character, to be played by British actor Alex Pettyfer, disguises himself as a human high-schooler, only to discover he’s still being hunted by his planet’s enemy.

Agron will play a girl dating a high school jock who falls for Number Four and becomes his confidante.

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Teresa Palmer is learning to count for I Am Number Four, DreamWorks’ adaptation of the upcoming young-adult science fiction book by James Frey and Jobie Hughes. D.J. Caruso is directing.

Palmer will play Number Six, one of nine aliens who escape their home planet before its annihilation by a rival species and hide out on Earth disguised as human high schoolers.

Alex Pettyfer, a British actor making his American debut with Beastly, will play the title role of Four. Sharlto Copley, the star of last year’s hit District 9, will play Pettyfer’s guardian and mentor.

Michael Bay is producing with Steven Spielberg. Chris Bender and J.C. Spink are executive producing with David Valdes. Al Gough and Miles Millar wrote the screenplay.

The WME-repped Palmer recently appeared in Bedtime Stories and next will be seen as the female lead in Disney’s summer tentpole The Sorcerer’s Apprentice with Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel. She also will take part in the Mad Max movie Fury Road.

Source: HeatVisionBlog.com