5:02pm UK, Wednesday May 19, 2004

Friends star Jennifer Aniston is set to star opposite Kevin Costner in a new film based on The Graduate.

Costner is in talks to play a male version of the Mrs Robinson character, an older man who seduces Aniston.

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Kevin 'Mrs Robinson' Costner

The comedy would see Aniston discover that the classic 60s movie starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft was based on her family.

She then finds out that her grandmother - to be played by Shirley MacLaine - was the inspiration for the man-eating Mrs Robinson.

Aniston's character returns to the family home to find out the truth and ends up falling for Costner's middle-aged character in a gender reversal of the original.

The as-yet-untitled film will be produced by George Clooney.


In other announcements at the Cannes Film Festival, Marlon Brando is set to play himself in the movie Brando on Brando.

The movie is about a young Tunisian boy who idolises the Hollywood star and comes to America in a bid to meet his hero.

British director Mike Figgis has announced plans to make a film version of the Jennifer Belle novel Going Down, about a drama student who turns to prostitution to pay her way through college.

American actress Julia Stiles is in talks to take the starring role.