Dakota Fanning has always shown talent way ahead of her years. She's only just turned 15 years old, and she's already worked with the likes of Steven Spielberg, Sean Penn, Denzel Washington and Tom Cruise, had a controversial film at Sundance last year, voiced the titular character of Coraline, and even did a little stint on Family Guy.

Now comes word from Variety that the teen star is in negotiations to play lead singer Cherie Currie in The Runaways, a biopic about the all-girl rock band from the 70's of the same name. Twilight star Kristen Stewart is already in line to play Joan Jett and this will be the second film Fanning and Stewart work on together after they complete the Twilight sequel, New Moon. The real life Currie joined the band around the same age fanning is now, and found herself engulfed in the rock star life, succumbing to drugs and alcohol.

Now that's she's getting older, she's taking even more dark, gritty and dramatic roles and after her role in I Am Sam at age 7, I'm just not sure she ever had a childhood. I'm constantly reminded of the sketch Amy Poehler starred in on Saturday Night Live, The Dakota Fanning Show where she had varying guests on and was constantly baffling and worrying them with her intellectually advanced observations on society, art and the like. Hopefully she doesn't go the Macaulay Culkin route and start fighting bears. Macaulay Culkin did that right?