Mia Wasikowska is probably going to be very famous soon, given that she is playing the lead in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, a movie that's already highly anticipated based on the title and the director alone. But right now she's still an untested property, and for whatever reason, that's exactly what Gus van Sant is looking for.

THR is reporting that Wasikowska has been cast in Restless, van Sant's high-school romance drama that, as we reported earlier, is a "contemporary and distinct take on young love." Most interestingly, Wasikowska apparently ditched the Robert Redford Civil War drama The Conspirator to be in the film, which either means that the part in Redford's movie was no good, or Gus van Sant has a seriously great script on his hands. Whatever he did to get her, he'll probably have a performance from an honest-to-God movie star by the time Restless comes out.