Amanda Seyfried has had a bit of a mixed bag with films this year, kicking things off in the spring with Red Riding Hood, which wasn’t brilliantly received, and ending on a much more positive note with Andrew Niccol’s brilliant In Time, which is out in cinemas now, and which I highly recommend you see sometime in the next few weeks.

The first trailer for her next film, Gone, has surfaced over at Yahoo Movies, which will give us another chance to see her in a leading role. And with any luck, this will hopefully be better received than Red Riding Hood was, because I think she is a great actress – which In Time, to give just the most recent example, shows – and deserves the rising recognition she’s been getting in recent years.

“Jill Parrish (Seyfried) comes home from a night shift to discover her sister Molly has been abducted. Jill, who had escaped from a kidnapper a year before, is convinced that the same serial killer has come back for her sister. Afraid that Molly will be dead by sundown, Jill embarks on a heart-pounding chase to find the killer, expose his secrets and save her sister.”

Along with Seyfried, the film also stars the excellent Wes Bentley (American Beauty), Jennifer Carpenter (TV’s Dexter), Sebastian Stan (Captain America: The First Avenger), Daniel Sunjata (TV’s Rescue Me), and Joel David Moore (Avatar). Allison Burnett, co-writer of the upcoming Underworld Awakening, has penned the script, which Heitor Dhalia has directed in what I believe is his English language debut.

Gone is set to come out here on 24th February next year, which means we’ve not gone long to wait until we can see it on the big screen. The trailer shows the film has some potential, and the great cast certainly lies in its favour, so let’s hope that it lives up to that potential and then some.