Angelina Jolie to play opera legend Maria Callas in Pablo Larrain directorial
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LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star Angelina Jolie will essay the function of iconic opera singer Maria Callas in a biographical drama movie to be directed by filmmaker Pabla Larrain.
Titled “Maria”, the movie is predicated on true accounts and written by Steven Knight of “Peaky Blinders” fame, as per leisure information outlet The Hollywood Reporter.
The story will reportedly relive and re-imagine the “tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story” of the lifetime of one of many world’s best opera singers throughout her remaining days in Nineteen Seventies Paris.
“I take very severely the accountability for Maria’s life and legacy.
I’ll give all I can to fulfill the problem 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 stated.
Larrain is thought for helming biopics on well-known personalities like Pablo Neruda (“Neruda”), Jacqueline Kennedy (“Jackie”) and Princess Diana (“Spencer”).
“Having the prospect to mix my two most deep and private passions, cinema and opera, has been a long-awaited dream.
To do that with Angelina, a supremely courageous and curious artist, is an enchanting alternative. A real present,” the Chilean director stated.
“Maria” can be produced by Juan de Dios Larrain for Fabula Pictures; Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment Pictures, a Fremantle Company; and Jonas Dornbach for Komlizen Film.
Jolie is presently engaged on her fifth movie as a director — “Without Blood”, based mostly on a novel of the identical identify by Alessandro Baricco.
The film stars Salma Hayek and Demian Bichir within the lead.
LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star Angelina Jolie will essay the function of iconic opera singer Maria Callas in a biographical drama movie to be directed by filmmaker Pabla Larrain.
Titled “Maria”, the movie is predicated on true accounts and written by Steven Knight of “Peaky Blinders” fame, as per leisure information outlet The Hollywood Reporter.
The story will reportedly relive and re-imagine the “tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story” of the lifetime of one of many world’s best opera singers throughout her remaining days in Nineteen Seventies Paris.
“I take very severely the accountability for Maria’s life and legacy.
I’ll give all I can to fulfill the problem 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 stated.
Larrain is thought for helming biopics on well-known personalities like Pablo Neruda (“Neruda”), Jacqueline Kennedy (“Jackie”) and Princess Diana (“Spencer”).
“Having the prospect to mix my two most deep and private passions, cinema and opera, has been a long-awaited dream.
To do that with Angelina, a supremely courageous and curious artist, is an enchanting alternative. A real present,” the Chilean director stated.
“Maria” can be produced by Juan de Dios Larrain for Fabula Pictures; Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment Pictures, a Fremantle Company; and Jonas Dornbach for Komlizen Film.
Jolie is presently engaged on her fifth movie as a director — “Without Blood”, based mostly on a novel of the identical identify by Alessandro Baricco.
The film stars Salma Hayek and Demian Bichir within the lead.
