Big news for 19-year-old British actress Eleanor Tomlinson. The barely legal up-and-comer has scored the lead female role in director Bryan Singer’s (X-Men, Usual Suspects) much buzzed about 3-D fantasy-adventure Jack the Giant Killer.

Tomlinson will play Princess Isabella, a royal runaway who is abducted by giants shortly after meeting her would-be hero Jack (Nicholas Hoult). The film, a dark and frightening take on the classic “Jack and the Beanstalk” fable, begins production this month in London.

Costars in the Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures release include Ewan McGregor as head of the king’s elite guard, Stanley Tucci as the king’s evil advisor, and Bill Nighy and John Kassir as the two-headed giant ruler Fallon.

Tomlinson is best known in the States for her performance as Fiona Chattaway in Tim Burton’s awful Alice in Wonderland redo. She also starred as young Duchess Sophie von Teschen in the 2006 period-thriller The Illusionist.