What a year it’s been for Canberra native Mia Wasikowska. After nabbing the titular role in Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland, holding her own against Julianne Moore and Annette Bening in newly released ensemble Dramedy The Kids Are Alright and attracting rumours of a Girl With The Dragon Tatto casting, the 20 year old actress has just been tipped to star in Jim Jarmusch’s newest project alongside Tilda Swinton and Michael Fassbender.
In a recent interview with Pitchfork Jarmusch said that pending adequate funding, the project would shoot early next year: “I have a new film project that’s really foremost for me that I hope to shoot early next year with Tilda Swinton and Michael Fassbender and Mia Wasikowska, who was Alice in Wonderland in Tim Burton’s film. I don’t have that quite financed yet, so I’m working on that.“
Jarmusch also unveiled plans for a Stooges documentary at the behest of Stooges frontman and Coffee and Cigarettes player Iggy Pop as well as a non-traditional opera about the life of Nikola Tesla: “I’m working on a documentary about the Stooges. It’s going to take a few years. There’s no rush on it, but it’s something that Iggy [Pop] asked me to do. I’m co-writing an ‘opera.’ It won’t be a traditional opera, but it’ll be about the inventor Nikola Tesla, with the composer Phil Kline.“
This of course, won’t be the first time Wasikowska has worked under a big name auteur with Gus Van Sant’s forthcoming drama Restless slated for release early next year. In it Wasikowska plays a “terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals and their encounters with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII.” Wasikowska will also star in the film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre opposite potential Jarmusch co-star Michael Fassbender.
Pretty impressive stuff. Already, at just 20 years of age, Wasikowska has Tim Burton, Jim Jarmusch and Gus Van Sant on speed dial and the collective praise of film pundits everywhere. At this rate she’ll soon have the collective careers and later, Oscar nominations, of Naomi Watts and Nicole Kidman.
Via Pitchfork
