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Tim Roth: Snape or ape?

LONDON (Reuters) - British Hollywood actor Tim Roth has to decide between playing a mysterious professor or an ape in his next film.

Roth has been offered the role of Professor Snape in Warner Brothers' movie version of top-selling children's book "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," his agency said on Friday. Warner Brothers is a division of Time Warner, parent company of CNN.com.

But the actor known for his menacing air in movies like "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction" also has the chance to co-star as a primate in director Tim Burton's remake of "Planet of the Apes."

"Nothing has been confirmed," a spokeswoman for the agency said.

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