Sarah Michelle Gellar's next film to be Southland Tales

While promoting The Grudge, Gellar said that she is likely to accept a role in the new film written and directed by Richard Kelly, of Donnie Darko fame.

"I had seen Donnie Darko, and I thought Richard Kelly was pretty much a genius," Gellar said. "I pretty much would have said yes blindly, but it was just such a great character, and he just had so many great ideas that it was something I was definitely interested in doing.

"[The plot is] impossible to explain, really. If someone hadn't seen Donnie Darko, or didn't know anything about it, could you imagine trying to describe it? 'OK, it's about a boy and this imaginary bunny?'

"Richard Kelly's movies are so abstract that they're somewhat difficult to pigeonhole. But Southland Tales is basically [set] over a Fourth of July weekend during an election year, and it's about the chaos in the future [in 2008], and what happens to Hollywood. It's sort of a biting comment on our tabloid society."

Gellar is also being considered for the lead in a film version of Sabrina the Teenage Witch. The commuter friendly newspaper, Metro, suggests it's already a done deal, but says that Gellar is concerned that at 28 she may be too old to play a teenager.