Spencer‘s Pablo Larraín has set the biopic Maria on the lifetime of American-born Greek soprano Maria Callas as his subsequent function, bringing Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie (These Who Want Me Useless) aboard to star.
The movie based mostly on true accounts will inform the tumultuous, stunning and tragic story of the world’s biggest opera singer, relived and re-imagined throughout her ultimate days in Nineteen Seventies Paris.
Pic was written by Larraín’s Spencer scribe, Oscar nominee Steven Knight. The filmmaker’s brother and artistic associate Juan de Dios Larraín will produce for Fabula Photos, alongside Lorenzo Mieli for The Condo Photos, a Fremantle Firm, and Jonas Dornbach for Komlizen Movie.
“Having the prospect to mix my two most deep and private passions, cinema and opera, has been a long-awaited dream,” mentioned Larraín. “To do that with Angelina, a supremely courageous and curious artist, is an enchanting alternative. A real present.”
“I take very significantly the accountability to Maria’s life and legacy. I’ll give all I can to satisfy the problem,” added Jolie. “Pablo Larraín is a director I’ve lengthy admired. To be allowed the prospect to inform extra of Maria’s story with him, and with a script by Steven Knight, is a dream.”
Jolie has most lately appeared in movies together with Marvel’s Eternals and the Warner Bros. drama These Who Want Me Useless. She’s at present in post-production on With out Blood — her fifth function as a director, and the primary underneath her new three-year cope with Fremantle, introduced again in March.
Pablo Larraín is a Chilean filmmaker greatest identified for options together with Spencer, starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana, and Jackie, which had Natalie Portman portraying Jackie Kennedy. He additionally directed and exec produced the Apple sequence Liseys’ Story, based mostly on the Stephen King novel. Different notable directorial credit embody Ema, Neruda, The Membership and No.
Jolie is repped by WME and attorneys Robert Supply and Lindsey Strasberg at Sloane, Supply, Weber & Dern; Larraín by Leisure 360; and Knight by CAA, United Brokers within the UK and Nelson Davis.
