According to Deadline, Vikander has landed the female lead opposite Michael Fassbender in The Light Between Oceans. Directed by Derek Cianfrance from M.L. Stedman's novel, the story centers on a lighthouse keeper on a remote Australian island who along with his grieving wife rescues an abandoned baby in a rowboat. Raising the child as their own, it isn't long before the consequences of their decision are felt.
And once that film is wrapped, Vikander will join Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl from Les Miserables director, Tom Hooper. This one had Nicole Kidman and Marion Cotillard attached to it some time ago, but they dropped out some time ago. Based on David Ebershoff's novel about Danish painter Einar Wegener, one of the first men to undergo a sex change, the story follows his relationship with wife Gerda (likely to be Vikander) who loved and encouraged her husband even as he went through a process that ended their marriage.
