David Tennant and Sarah Harding join St. Trinian's sequel

DOCTOR WHO star David Tennant and Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding have joined the cast of ST. TRINIANS II: THE LEGEND OFF FRITTON'S GOLD, a sequel to the 2007 original. Variety reports the news:

The film, which is being produced and directed by Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson, started shooting Tuesday in and around London and at Ealing Studios. Nick Moorcroft and Piers Ashworth wrote the script.

The cast also includes Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Gemma Arterton, Talulah Riley, Jodie Whittaker, Juno Temple, Tamsin Egerton, Celia Imrie and Fenella Woolgar, all of whom appeared in the first movie in the contemporary franchise, "St Trinian's."

The cast of "St. Trinian's II," in which the pupils and staff of the anarchic girls' school engage in a hunt for treasure and a battle against a women-hating secret society, also includes up-and-coming thesps Ella Smith, Zawe Ashton and Montserrat Lombard