The South Korean director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy) is in talks to direct the English-language drama Stoker, starring Carey Mulligan as a young woman whose eccentric uncle comes back into her life after the death of her father, reports 24 Frames.

Stoker was written by Prison Break star Wentworth Miller.

Jodie Foster is costarring in the Fox Searchlight project. The role of the uncle has not yet been cast.

No production date has been set.