If she agrees to accept the role, Dunst (Spider-Man, Marie Antoinette) would be working under the direction of Michel Gondry, her director from the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
The story of Be Kind Rewind, written by Gondry, follows a man (Black) who becomes accidentally becomes the center of a magnetic field, which causes all of the movies at the video store where his friend works to be erased. The friends then decide to remake all of the lost films.
Filming for Be Kind Rewind is set to begin in September.