Atom Egoyan has lined up a stellar cast for his next film project, Chloe, which will begin shooting in Toronto on Feb. 9. Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried, the ingenue from Mamma Mia! and a lead in the HBO series Big Love, are starring in the erotic thriller based on the 2003 French production Nathalie.

Egoyan will direct the screenplay adapted by Erin Cressida Wilson, the scribe behind Secretary and Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus.

Ivan Reitman and Tom Pollock will produce through their Montecito Picture Company. The film is fully financed by France’s StudioCanal, which will distribute in France, Germany and the U.K. as well as handle world sales. Montecito has an output pact with Paramount, although the company could not verify if the film would be distributed through Paramount.

Joe Medjuck and Jeffrey Clifford are also producing. Dan Dubiecki and Reitman’s son, filmmaker Jason Reitman, are executive producers. On the Canadian side, Egoyan’s frequent collaborators, Simone Urdl and Jennifer Weiss of The Film Farm, will act as line producers.

Moore plays Catherine, a doctor, who suspects husband David (Neeson) is sleeping around. Aiming to catch him red-handed, she hires the stunning Chloe (Seyfried) to bait him. But the tables turn when Catherine is herself smitten with Chloe. Any comparisons with Fatal Attraction are intentional.

The original film, directed by Anne Fontaine, starred Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant and Emmanuelle Béart. The elder Reitman optioned the rights and commissioned Wilson’s adaptation in 2005.

In a statement, Reitman expressed confidence in the on-screen chemistry between Moore and Seyfried. ‘Amanda has this extraordinary natural beauty that complements perfectly Julianne’s high sensuality. Their relationship switches from erotic drama to thriller as Chloe’s intimate involvement threatens the family’s perfect world.’

Said Egoyan: ‘Chloe lures Catherine into this absolute flirtation with disaster, something that can be very destructive, but it’s compulsive: they can’t help themselves.’ He added, ‘It’s impressive that Amanda Seyfried is making this choice and doing it so fearlessly. We have assembled a great cast capable of making this intoxicating movie resonate with a very wide audience.’

Egoyan directed Neeson last year at New York’s Lincoln Center in a stage version of Samuel Beckett’s teleplay Hey Joe. Moore was most recently in Canada shooting Blindness for Fernando Meirelles.