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By now, you’ve probably heard more than a few words uttered on the blogosphere about Carey Mulligan. There’s talk that she’s likely to be sitting among Oscar nominees in March for her Audrey Hepburn-esque role in Lone Scherfig’s An Education and she’s racking up projects in development as fast as any other leading lady in Hollywood’s hills. She was recently cast in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps alongside Shia LeBouf and Michael Douglas. And now she’s prepped and ready for another leading role.

According to Screen Daily, Muliigan has been cast in The Beautiful Fantastic, a fairy tale-like drama from director Terry Loane (Mickybo & Me) and screenwriter Simon Aboud. It is a whimsical tale said to be in the vein of Amelie and Finding Neverland, that will also star Tom Wilkinson, Christopher Eccleston, Mackenzie Crook (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Joanna Lumley. The story focuses on frustrated children’s author Bella Brown, who only leaves her obsessively ordered flat for work at the library. Chronically shy, she has no friends, no family and no life until she falls in with Billy, a hopelessly messy inventor who whirls through the library’s carefully balanced world like a crazy tornado.

This is a script that appeared on The Brit List, an annual compilation of the best unproduced screenplays in the UK, similar to The Black List here in the U.S. Filming will begin in March of 2010 in Edinburgh, Scotland.