Carey Mulligan is building quite the career with interesting role choice and working with some of the best talent in the industry. That trend continues now as Deadline reports the Oscar nominated actress is in discussions to star with Joaquin Phoenix in a secretive film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze. Samantha Morton and Amy Adamsare also circling roles.

Very little is known about the film, but Deadline speculates – based on info gathered late last year – that it is a satire revolving around world leaders who get together to map out worldwide seismic events, from gas prices to wars.

Since bursting onto the scene in “An Education”, which garnered her an Oscar nod for Best Actress, Mulligan has nary missed a step (we’ll forgive her for “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps”). In 2011 she turned in two more Oscar worthy performances, as Ryan Gosling’s dream girl in “Drive” and Michael Fassbender’s out of control little sister in “Shame.” She’ll be seen as Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” this December and is currently filming folk music drama “Inside Llewyn Davis” for the Coen Brothers.

Carey Mulligan is in talks to star opposite Ryan Gosling in action-thriller Drive.

The Oscar-nominated An Education actress will play a woman who ends up on the run with a Hollywood stuntman-turned-getaway driver after a bank heist goes wrong.

Breaking Bad‘s Bryan Cranston is also closing in on a role in the Universal project.

Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson) will direct Drive based on James Sallis’s novel.