Amanda Seyfried Starring in Linda Lovelace Biopic

People have a funny way of identifying actors. For as much press as someone like say Ryan Gosling's had this year for the extraordinary Drive and good-but-not-great The Idles of March, I don't know anyone who knows him by name. If we pulled people from the street and showed his mug, my gut says the majority would say, "Oh yeah, that’s 'The Notebook' guy!"

Well if this works out for Amanda Seyfried, no one will ever look at her as "the girl from 'Mamma Mia!'" again. Variety has the lowdown she’s in negotiations to play 70s porn actress Linda Lovelace in Lovelace.

Lovelace was the star of the infamous 1972 porno Deep Throat, to this day one of the most successful independent films ever made and briefly shot the adult cinema into the mainstream. Peter Sarsgaard (walking away scar-less from the Green Lantern fiasco) will play her husband Chuck Traynor.

The film will chronicle her rise in porn peaking with Deep Throat, abusive relationship with husband Traynor (a role Sarsgaard will sink his teeth into), leaving the industry and pulling a 180 as an anti-porn activist.

Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (the Oscar winning duo behind documentaries The Times of Harvey Milk and Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt and last year's "Eh..." received Howl) will direct from a script by Andy Bellin and W. Merritt Johnson adapted from the Eric Danville-penned book The Complete Linda Lovelace.