Eva Green has agreed to play the female lead in
Kingdom of Heaven for director Ridley Scott, according to Variety.
the Crusades-era epic adventure that Scott is filming in Morocco for 20th Century Fox. She will play Sibylla, a princess who falls in love with Balian, a peasant-turned-knight played by Orlando Bloom.
Green, a 23-year-old who lives in France, made a splashy debut in the Bernardo Bertolucci-directed film
The Dreamers, which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.