Lindsay in talks to play Liz in film

Lindsay Lohan is in talks to play film icon Elizabeth Taylor in a Lifetime TV-movie, according to multiple reports.

According to Deadline.com, which first reported the story, Lohan was in negotiations to star in "Elizabeth & Richard: A Love Story," focusing on the tempestuous, headline-making romance of Taylor, who died last March at age 79, and fellow film star Richard Burton. In May, Lifetime had announced the movie, written by Christopher Monger ("Temple Grandin"), for its 2011-12 slate.

Larry Thompson, the telefilm's executive producer, told E! Online Tuesday that he has "been and am in conversations with Lindsay Lohan and her representatives as well as other actresses and their respective agents regarding playing the role of Hollywood's Royalty, Elizabeth Taylor."

Lohan's spokesman had no comment on the movie.

The "Mean Girls" star, whose most recent screen role was in director Robert Rodriguez's "Machete" in 2010, had been cast in the title role of writer-director Matthew Wilder's "Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story" that same year. But scheduling difficulties -- due variously to her probation, jail time and community service stemming from 2007 DUI convictions -- led to her being replaced by Malin Akerman.

Last April, Lohan was announced to play Kim Gotti, wife of John Gotti Jr., in the biography "Gotti: Three Generations," as well as an unspecified role in another movie by the same production company, "Mob Street," with a screenplay by Chazz Palminteri. Since then, her participation in these as-yet-unfilmed projects has become uncertain.