Actress Sienna Miller is to be offered the role of a blind Oxford University don in an upcoming independent film.

Shamim Sarif, the director of the film and a novelist, said it would be "fantastic" if Miller could play the role in "The Dreaming Spires". Set in post-war Oxford, the film tells the story of a young student who falls in love with a blind, married English professor in her thirties.

The script is an adaptation of one of Sarif's short stories. It is the first film by Sarif not to feature a lesbian love story. Filming is due to start later in the year.