Lindsay Lohan In Talks To Play Elizabeth Taylor, In Richard Burton TV Movie - Who's Better? (PHOTOS)

Liz To Be Played By WHO?! (PHOTOS)

Lindsay Lohan's rehabilitation continues, with reports that she is in talks to play a young Dame Elizabeth Taylor in an upcoming TV movie.

Bosses at America's Lifetime network have been working on a film about Taylor since last May, two months after her death in March.

Independent producer Larry Thompson is overseeing the project, tentatively entitled Elizabeth & Richard: A Love Story, and insiders tells The Hollywood Reporter that Mean Girls star Lohan has been discussing the lead role with TV chiefs.

The film is said to focus on the love affair between Taylor and Richard Burton.

The celebrity couple split in 1974 after 10 years as husband and wife, before marrying again in 1975 - the second union lasted just a year.

While Lohan's been best known for her offscreen behaviour over the last few years following her original success in films like Freaky Friday, a 2004 Slate story suggests she could be the perfect person to play the icon.

It reads: "Both had domineering stage mothers, little semblance of a real childhood, fame from a young age, substance abuse issues, public emotional outpourings, and copious amounts of tabloid drama."

Can you think of someone better to play a young Elizabeth Taylor? Let us know which one of this lot is best suited, or if there's someone obvious we've missed...

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