Joe Wright & Keira Knightley reteaming for Anna Karenina

phantom spots these brief tantalizing lines at the end of a Deadline item about Aaron Johnson’s rising star:

Johnson has also been offered the romantic lead role alongside Keira Knightley in Anna Karenina, the adaptation of the Tolstoy classic tragic love story that has a script by Tom Stoppard and will be directed by Atonement helmer Joe Wright for Working Title. That film will likely shoot in the fall…

Knightley, Johnson, Wright, Stoppard, Tolstoy — now there’s some pedigree. Aaron Johnson is also up for the lead in Oliver Stone’s weed-dealer thriller, Savages, adapted from the sensational new novel by Don Winslow, set to begin filming in June.

Incidentally, Greta Garbo won the NYFCC award for Best Actress in 1935 playing Anna Karenina. (Not nominated for an Oscar; Bette Davis won that year for Dangerous.) Vivien Leigh played Anna in 1948.