Angelina Jolie to Play Maria Callas in Next Biopic from Pablo Larrain



Jackie and Spencer manager Pablo Larraín seems acceptable to clasp to consciousness his lens connected a fig of the astir celebrated girls successful existent history, and has observed his adjacent interest successful soprano Maria Callas. The Chilean manager has additionally tapped each other, likewise well-known, genitor to play his pb successful Angelina Jolie.

Maria, based wholly connected existent wealth owed, volition reportedly archer the “tumultuous, beauteous and tragic tale” of the beingness of the 1 of the world’s champion opera singers, relived and reimagined astatine immoderate constituent of her last days successful Seventies Paris. The highly influential, America-born Greek icon — as soon arsenic defined arsenic “the Bible of opera” by Leonard Bernstein — is likewise related to immoderate different of Larraín’s movies, having famously had a emotion matter with Greek transportation tycoon Aristotle Onassis, who aboriginal joined Jackie Kennedy.

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Written by means of Peaky Blinders writer Steven Knight, who reunites with Larraín pursuing the director’s preceding characteristic, Spencer, the movie is produced through Juan de Dios Larraín for Fabula Pictures; Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment Pictures, a Fremantle Company; and Jonas Dornbach for Komlizen Film.

“I instrumentality precise earnestly the work to Maria’s lifestyles and legacy. I volition proviso each I tin to fulfill the assment,” said Jolie. “Pablo Larraín is a manager I person agelong trendy. To beryllium allowed the hazard to archer other of Maria’s communicative with him, and with a publication done Steven Knight, is simply a dream.”

Added Larraín: “Having the menace to harvester my 2 astir heavy and backstage passions, cinema and opera, has been a long-awaited dream. To effort this with Angelina, a supremely brave and funny artist, is simply a captivating opportunity. A existent present.”

Jolie is presently successful postproduction connected her 5th movie arsenic a director, Without Blood, the superior underneath a caller three-year woody she sed with Fremantle. She is repped with the assistance of WME and ineligible professionals Robert Offer and Lindsey Strasberg astatine Sloane Offer.

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