Kristen Bell will voice the leading female character in Imagi Studios 3-D computer animated film Astro Boy. Kristen is best know for her television role as Elle Bishop on Heroes (2007-2008) and her lead role on Veronica Mars. She recently appeared on the big screen in Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Created by Osamu Tezuka as a magna in 1952, the Astro Boy animated television series was first aired in 1963 in Japan. The upcoming movie is scheduled for 2009. It will be directed by David Bowers (Flushed Away). Also lending their voices will be Freddie Highmore as Astro Boy, Nicolas Cage as Dr. Tenma, Bill Nighy as Dr. Elefun, Donald Sutherland as General Stone, Eugene Levy as Orrin, Nathan Lane as Ham Egg, Madeline Carroll as Widget / Grace, and Sterling Beaumon as Sludge / Sam.
