Amanda Seyfried in for "Dear John"

Variety is reporting that golden girl Amanda Seyfried will follow Mamma Mia! with a starring role in Dear John, the Lasse Hallstrom-directed adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks best-seller.

For some reason, I just can’t get into those books. Too tear-jerker-ish for me, I guess. And it sounds like this one will be, too.

Seyfried joins Channing Tatum (we’ll call this “the beautiful people” film) as a young woman who meets and falls in love with a soldier while he’s on leave. Jamie Linden wrote the script.

The film begins shooting Oct. 13 in South Carolina.

Image: Mamma Mia, Universal Pictures, 2008