The film is called STOKER and it tells the story of a quirky teenager that suffers through the death of her father, only to have her estranged uncle show up to help the family through the grieving process.  Mulligan would play the teenager while Foster would play her mother.

The An Education star is hot favourite to take the lead in the film based on Ian McEwan’s acclaimed novella.

Kate Winslet’s ex Sam Mendes has signed on to direct the movie, which revolves around a newly married couple in the 1960s who are battling with their own fears about sex on their wedding night.

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British actress Carey Mulligan is set to play Eliza Doolittle in a remake of My Fair Lady, according to the film’s writer Emma Thompson.

Speaking to BBC 5 Live at the premiere of her latest movie Nanny McPhee, the star said they have yet to cast the male lead of Henry Higgins.

It has been reported that Hugh Grant is linked to the role.

Thompson said that she would “love him to do it”, but added nothing had been confirmed yet.

UPDATE

Emma Thompson confirmed that Carey Mulligan had the part in Today’s Andrew Marr Show

Carey Mulligan plays Carol Slayman in Public Enemies

As John Dillinger , Baby Face Nelson and their gang run rampant through the banks of the Midwest, J. Edgar Hoover  assigns the top agent in his newly-formed FBI, Melvin Purvis , to lead the war on crime against the brazen criminals. In the meantime, Dillinger has fallen in love with the feisty Billie Frechette (and has sworn to protect her even if it puts his own life in danger.

A suburban London teen finds her traditional education replaced by something slightly more sinister when an older, more worldly suitor sweeps her off of her feet while placing her future in jeopardy. London, 1961: 16-year-old Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is smart, attractive, and eager to start her adult life. She’s grown tired of the familiar adolescent routine, so when urbane newcomer David (Peter Sarsgaard) appears in town, Jenny senses a rare opportunity to shake things up a bit. Quickly falling under David’s spell, the impressionable Jenny begins accompanying her newfound beau to classical concerts, art auctions, crowded pubs, and dinners that stretch into the small hours of the night. But Jenny is brighter than most kids her age, and her parents always dreamt of getting their exceptional daughter into Oxford. These days it seems like she’s headed in a different direction — will David ultimately be her undoing, or the person who helps her finally realize her true potential?

Tragedy opens the wounds a family has long struggled to ignore in this powerful emotional drama. Bennett Brewster (Aaron Johnson) was a bright, handsome and talented young man who was suddenly killed in an auto accident late one night while driving home with Rose (Carey Mulligan), a girl who has been a close friend for years but had only recently become romantically involved with him. Bennett’s death devastates his family; his mother Grace (Susan Sarandon) is overcome with grief and can’t stop wondering what his final minutes must have been like, father Allan (Pierce Brosnan) is forced to turn away from his mistress (Jennifer Ehle) and try to comfort a woman he no longer certain he loves, and brother Ryan (Johnny Simmons) mourns Bennett while becoming painfully aware that he will never live up to his late brother’s example in the eyes of his parents. As grief slowly brings the family’s emotional troubles to the surface, two unwelcome characters come into the picture — Rose, who has discovered she’s pregnant with Bennett’s child, and the truck driver (Michael Shannon) who unwittingly took Bennett’s life. The first feature film from writer and director Shana Feste, The Greatest received its world premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival

Jack, at home again, talks with Elsie, his sister. He explains that he wants to leave in order to get away from “this house and everything”, and Elsie becomes angry with Jack — not because he wants to leave her, but because he could be killed at war. Kipling comes into the room, and Elsie hides behind a chair. Kipling then tells Jack that he will get Jack into the army, somehow. After Kipling leaves, Elsie emerges, furious.

Elsie reveals that Jack went to war, not out of patriotism, but to get away from his family, particularly to escape the shadow of Kipling’s fame.

Elsie is marries George Bambridge. Her parents, though still missing Jack, are beginning to move on; they are happy for Elsie.

It has been twenty years since My Boy Jack first began, in 1913. There are rumours of war, again, and Kipling wonders why the Great War was even fought. What was the point of his son’s death, if there will just be another war?

My Boy Jack ends with Kipling reciting his poem, My Boy Jack