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Orlando Bloom has made us belief he's an elf, a pirate, and a crusader, so it shouldn't be too much of a stretch to convince us that he's a doctor with a medical license and a stethoscope and everything.  THR reports that he'll topline the indie "Hitchockian" thriller The Good Doctor, which is about, "a frustrated doctor looking to impress his superiors and colleagues. When his 18-year-old patient, admitted for a kidney infection, provides him with the esteem he so craves, the doctor tampers with her treatment so that she'll have to stay at the hospital with him."  So remember, next time you go to the hospital, make sure your doctor is feeling good about himself.  My advice for Bloom's character would be to go look in the mirror and realize he looks like Orlando Bloom.

Michael Pena, Troy Garity, Courtney Ford, Taraji P. Henson, Rob Morrow and J.K. Simmons are in negotiations to co-star.  Here's how THR breaks down Pena, Garity, and Ford's roles: "Pena will play an orderly who discovers the doctor's budding relationship and blackmails him for prescription painkillers. Garity is a successful, self-assured doctor, a counterpoint to Bloom. Ford is a woman who has eyes for Bloom's character."