French model-turned-actress Léa Seydoux is set to topline writer/director Christophe Gans’ dark re-imagining of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. The 26-year-old stunner will star opposite Black Swan’s Vincent Cassel in the Eskwad and Pathé production.

Seydoux is coming off the Tom Cruise blockbuster Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, in which she played a super-sexy, diamond-loving assassin. Additional creds include roles in Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood and Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.

Beauty and the Beast will roll camera in October. The film is Gans’ first directorial project since 2006’s creepy Radha Mitchell-starrer Silent Hill.