While he hasn’t quite hit the big time yet, Alden Ehrenreich is certainly one to watch. He was discovered after Steven Spielberg saw him in a video at a bat-mitzvah when Alden was 14. That led to TV roles and from there he got cast in the lead in Francis Ford Coppola’s indie effort, Tetro. Since then he’s been on shortlists for roles such as the new Spider-man, reteamed with Coppola for Twixt and gone indie again for Place Like Home.
Now Variety reports that he’s in talks to join Stoker, the movie written by Prison Break’s Wentworth Miller (under the pen name Ted Foulke) that will mark Park Chan-Wook’s English language debut. In the film, Mia Wasikowska stars as a teenage loner who’s thrown off by the arrival of her mysterious uncle, played by Matthew Goode, while she mourns the death of her father. Ehrenreich will play Whip Taylor, who’s initially kind to Wasikowska’s character despite the fact that the jocks pick on her.
The increasingly impressive cast also includes Nicole Kidman (as Wasikowska’s mother), Lucas Till and Jacki Weaver.