Michelle Williams to play Peggy Lee in biopic ‘Fever’

By ANI
WASHINGTON: American actor Michelle Williams is all set to star within the upcoming biopic titled ‘Fever’ primarily based on the lifetime of the late leisure icon Peggy Lee.

As per Variety, the forthcoming movie is being directed by Todd Haynes and MGM is in talks to again the movie. Marc Platt, Reese Witherspoon, and Killer Films’ Pamela Koffler and Christine Vachon are bankrolling the movie.

This can be Williams and Haynes’ third collaboration. The filmmaker beforehand directed the Oscar winner within the 2007 Bob Dylan biographical movie ‘I’m Not There’ and the 2017 thriller drama ‘Wonderstruck’.

Doug Wright is writing the screenplay for the biopic of the jazz singer and actor, who died on the age of 81 in January 2002. Singer Billie Eilish, her mom Maggie Baird, and Justin Lubliner, CEO of Eilish’s label Darkroom, are additionally in early discussions about probably coming aboard the movie as govt producers.

Born Norma Deloris Egstrom in 1920, Peggy Lee is right this moment seemingly finest recognized for her model of the track ‘Fever’, which turned a sensation after she recorded it in 1958. She started singing professionally on the age of 16, and recorded her first primary hit, ‘Somebody Else Is Taking My Place’ on the age of twenty-two.

Her profession, together with an Oscar-nominated efficiency in 1955’s ‘Pete Kelly’s Blues’ and several other roles within the 1955 Disney animated function ‘Lady and the Tramp’, spanned into the Nineties.

The upcoming biopic has been in growth for years. Witherspoon was initially hooked up to star as Lee, however the venture was placed on maintain after the June 2012 loss of life of Nora Ephron, who wrote a draft of the script.

It can be Haynes’ second portrait of a pop-culture icon, after his 2007 kaleidoscopic biography of Bob Dylan titled ‘I’m Not There’, Williams performed a small position in that movie as a personality primarily based on Edie Sedgwick.

Haynes’ 1998 movie ‘Velvet Goldmine’ can also be loosely primarily based on the careers of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Lou Reed. Williams, in the meantime, earned an Oscar nomination for her efficiency as Marilyn Monroe in 2011’s ‘My Week with Marilyn’.