A Great Book, A Great Actress. A Great Film?

The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop on the next project for one of Hollywood's latest breakout stars. Catalina Sandino Moreno is in negotiations to join the cast of "Love in the Time of Cholera." Mike Newell is directing for Stone Village Pictures and New Line Cinema. Javier Bardem and Giovanna Mezzogiorno have already been cast in the film, based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

The story follows a romantic man named Florentino (Bardem) who loses Fermina (Mezzogiorno), the girl of his dreams, to a wealthier suitor and spends the next 50 years building his life and reputation so that one day he might have her.

Moreno, if she signs on the dotted line, will play Hildebranda Sanchez, Fermina's cousin.