Sofia Coppola Teams Up with Kirsten Dunst Again to Remake Clint Eastwood's 'Beguiled'

It's been a full decade since Sofia Coppola and Kirsten Dunst last worked together on Marie-Antoinette, and it's definitely time for the two to meet up again -- and the filmmaker has just the right project! Coppola is currently working on a remake of Clint Eastwood's 1970s movie The Beguiled and she has her eyes on Dunst and one other big Hollywood star.

According to The Tracking Board, Coppola will be writing, directing and producing the upcoming remake, and so far she has three famous ladies in mind to star: Dunst, Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman and Maleficent actress Elle Fanning, who already starred in Coppola's Somewhere.

Roman Coppola, Sofia's brother and an Oscar nominee for his Moonrise Kingdom screenplay, will be co-producing the film, which will be distributed by Focus Features.

Kidman will be playing the headmistress of the school (a role originated in the film by Geraldine Page), while Dunst will play a teacher, and Fanning one of the students. So far there's no word on who will be playing Eastwood's role, but it seems Coppola is eyeing "a Chris Pratt type" for the part.

As AV Club reports, the original film, a period piece, tells the story of a Northern soldier during the Civil War who, injured, recuperates in an all-girl school in Louisiana. The drama sees its main star stuck into "ever so many romantic misunderstandings."

Kidman recently starred in another remake, Secret in Their Eyes, a Hollywood adaptation of the Argentinean Oscar-winning film of the same name. Coppola, on the other hand, hasn't ever tackled a remake, though she has adapted other writers' work in the past, including her first major film, The Virgin Suicides, which was adapted from Jeffrey Eugenides' novel of the same name.

There's still no date or confirmed cast members for The Beguiled, but expect more news in the coming months.