Jennifer Hudson Flies with Winged Creatures

Getting cast in Dreamgirls by gay director Bill Condon put queer-icon-in-the-making Jennifer Hudson in the rarefied company of Beyonce and Eddie Murphy, but winning the Oscar has elevated her to a co-starring role opposite fellow Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker.

The two have signed for Winged Creatures, a drama about a group of people who witness a brutal murder-suicide in a fast-food restaurant and how they go about recovering from the incident.

Directed by Australian Rowan Woods, Creatures boasts a top-notch cast; in addition to Hudson and Whitaker, the film features Oscar nominee Jackie Earle Haley, Kate Beckinsale, Dakota Fanning, Embeth Davidtz, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Troy Garity (Soldier's Girl).

Currently shooting in Los Angeles, Winged Creatures should swoop into theaters in 2008.