Carey Mulligan to Star in Searchlight's 'Stoker'

Carey Mulligan has the world in front of her and thanks to an Oscar-nominated turn in An Education (one that was clearly better than the performance that won the Academy Award), she's going to keep attracting plenty of attention. She's supposed to play Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher's remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but I'm not sure that's set in stone just yet. However, she does have another film with a big name director already lined up. The Los Angeles Times informs us that Mulligan will go in front of the camera for Stoker, which has also caught the eye of Jodie Foster. Jodie should work more. Anyway, the film will at least be produced by Tony Scott and Ridley Scott, and there are those who think one of those cats might direct, as well. Now, the first of two very weird add-ons here is that Stoker would come from Fox Searchlight, and Scott Free is not exactly known for its boutique fare. Having said that, they did partner with Searchlight for Cyrus, and it doesn't get too much further off Hollywood's well-worn path than the Duplass brothers. The second strange footnote is that this movie was written by Wentworth Miller, you know, the guy from Prison Break. Of course, there's nothing new about actors writing, and even mainstream actors going lo-fi with a script, but I guess I never conceived of Wentworth Miller being pointed quite that way. There's no guarantee it's a great script, but everything else adds up to it being so. Here's the barebones plot thingee: "Stoker tells of an eccentric teenager whose enigmatic and estranged uncle returns to the family after the death of the girl's father." And there you go. Let's play detective and say Mulligan's the eccentric teen.