Vikander Catches "Tulip Fever"

Swedish actress Alicia Vikander ("A Royal Affair," "Anna Karenina") is in final talks to play the lead in "Tulip Fever" says Daily Mail

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Based on author Deborah Moggach's book, the story follows a woman who a romantic liaison with a talented artist hired by her rich husband to paint her portrait.

Matthias Schoenaerts ("Rust and Bone") is being sought to portray the lover.

This one has had quite a history. Back in 2004, "Shakespeare in Love" director John Madden was lining up the movie with Keira Knightley and Jude Law to star, with an adapted script by Tom Stoppard But once tax incentives for production in UK disappeared, it was scrapped .

Soon after that, director Peter Chelsom ("Shall We Dance," "Hannah Montana: The Movie") tried to get it made. It quickly fell apart,

 Then in 2011, Tom Hooper considered it among a handful of other project as his follow-up to "The King's Speech" before settling on "Les Miserables"