Jennifer Hudson is in negotiations to play the daughter of her fellow Oscar winner Forest Whitaker in the film “Winged Creatures,” according to Variety.

Hudson, an Oscar winner for “Dreamgirls” and a former “American Idol” finalist, is trying to fit the film into her busy schedule, as she is recording her first album, which Arista Records will release this fall.

Rowan Woods directs the film, which is an adaptation of the Roy Freirich novel about a group of strangers who form a unique relationship with each other after surviving a random shooting at a Los Angeles diner.

Also starring are Kate Beckinsale, Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Jackie Earle Haley, Embeth Davidtz, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Josh Hutcherson and Troy Garity. Robert Salerno is producing the pic for Unruly Films.

“Mayor Richard Daley declared Tuesday (March 6) “Jennifer Hudson Day” across Chicago to honor the city’s Oscar-winning “Dreamgirls” hero, The Associated Press reports. Hudson performed a song outside the Chicago Theatre and visited her former high school, Dunbar Vocational Career Academy.”