Australia’s Mia Wasikowska is in talks to play the title role in director Cary Fukunaga’s feature film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre”.

The actress, next seen in Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”, would replace Ellen Page (god, when isn’t Ellen Page being replaced!?). Michael Fassbender (“Inglorious Basterds”) is also in talks.

The project, says Variety, is a period piece but will play up the gothic elements of the story about Jane (Wasikowska), a demure governess who discovers her surly employer Rochester (Fassbender) is harboring a dark secret.

Actresses that have played Jane Eyre in the past include Anna Paquin (1996’s Jane Eyre”),
Joan Fontaine (1944’s “Jane Eyre”), and Ruth Wilson (2006’s “Jane Eyre”).