First Look: Rachel Weisz in Agora

Fotogramas.es has the first look at Rachel Weisz in Agora, director Alejandro Amenabar’s ancient Egyptian epic. Agora marks Amenabar’s second English-language film after the Nicole Kidman thriller The Others. The filmmaker previously helmed The Sea Inside, which won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2005.

Agora is set in Roman Egypt in the fourth century A.D. and Weisz plays astrologer-philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, who fights to save the collected wisdom of the ancient world. It also stars Max Minghella as Weisz’s slave, Davus.

Fotogramas has another image of Weisz in the film and you can check it out here. Agora is currently in post-production and slated to come out December 18, 2009.