Sandra Bullock has received an offer for the film Never Forget at Screen Gems. The film, according to sources familiar with the project, say it is loosely based on the documentary On Moral Grounds, directed by Robby Kushner, which depicts one woman’s quest to reimburse Holocaust survivors who were swindled out of their heir’s insurance policies by a European insurance company. The studio has been very hush-hush on this project but has confirmed exclusively to EW.com that she’s been offered the role.

The film is one of several movies recently offered Bullock, but she has passed on most of them. Bullock has already said no to starring in New Line’s Our Wild Life, aka Elephant Orphanage, which centers on the life of Dame Daphne Sheldrick, an animal conservationist in Kenya who devoted her life to preventing the extinction of elephants. Julia Roberts had been rumored for the role, too. New Line is now regrouping before reaching out to a new leading lady.

Bullock has also turned down an offer to star in Disney’s The Odd Life of Timothy Green, a film from Peter Hedges (Dan in Real Life) that centers on a family whose lives are touched by an unexpected child.

It’s understandable why the 45-year-old actress may have turned down both Wild Life and Timothy Green. Both parts have inklings of her Oscar-winning role in The Blind Side in them. Wild Life requires her to portray another real-life person, just as she did playing Leigh Anne Tuohy, and Timothy Green centers around a child who changes a family’s life, a la Michael Oher.

Bullock is currently negotiating to co-star opposite Tom Hanks in the adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s 9/11 novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which Stephen Daldry is planning to direct for Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures. The post 9/11 drama centers on a young boy who finds a key that belonged to his late father who died in the World Trade Center attacks. Sources believe it will be the actress’s next project.

Image Credit: Mike Marsland/WireImage.comLiam Neeson (Taken) will play Admiral Shane in Universal’s action-adventure movie Battleship, it was announced today. Neeson will star alongside Friday Night Lights’ Taylor Kitsch, who will play Hopper, a Naval officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones who is Shane’s future son-in-law. The cast also includes Brooklyn Decker (Ugly Betty) as Shane’s daughter, Sam; Alexander Skarsgård (True Blood) as Hopper’s older brother, Commanding Officer Stone of the  USS Samson; and Rihanna as Lt. Raikes, Hopper’s crew mate and a weapons specialist.

Directed by Peter Berg (Hancock), Battleship is an action adventure about the planet battling a colossal force. It’ll bow in theaters May 18, 2012. Jon and Erich Hoeber (Whiteout) wrote the screenplay with  current revisions by Brian Koppelman and David Levien.

Dennis Quaid has already landed the role of the righteous, rock-music hating reverend in the upcoming Footloose remake. Now, Andie MacDowell has signed on to play his patient wife Vi in writer-director Craig Brewer’s (Hustle and Flow) redo of the 1984 movie about a small town that bans dancing. MacDowell and Quaid have played husband and wife once before, when they co-starred in HBO’s Emmy-nominated 2001 movie Dinner with Friends. The acting vets should be a welcome addition to a cast that boasts relative newbies Kenny Wormald (Center Stage: Turn it Up) and Julianne Hough (Dancing with the Stars) as the teen leads.

Production on the remake is set to begin shortly, with a release date already scheduled for next April.

MacDowell is currently shooting the new Fox TV series Lone Star opposite Jon Voight, and her indie film Daydream Nation – in which she stars opposite Kat Dennings and Josh Lucas — will screen at the Toronto Film Festival.