Angelina Jolie to Play Maria Callas in Next Biopic from Pablo Larraín - Hollywood Reporter

Jackie and Spencer manager Pablo Larraín looks acceptable to proceed to absorption his lens connected immoderate of the astir celebrated women successful modern history, and has recovered his adjacent taxable successful soprano Maria Callas. The Chilean manager has besides tapped another, arsenic well-known, fig to play his pb successful Angelina Jolie.

Maria, based connected existent accounts, volition reportedly archer the “tumultuous, beauteous and tragic story” of the beingness of the 1 of the world’s top opera singers, relived and reimagined during her last days successful 1970s Paris. The hugely influential, America-born Greek icon — once described arsenic “the Bible of opera” by Leonard Bernstein — is besides linked to different of Larraín’s films, having famously had a emotion matter with Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, who aboriginal joined Jackie Kennedy.

Written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, who reunites with Larraín pursuing the director’s erstwhile feature, Spencer, the movie is produced by 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 beingness and legacy. I volition springiness each I tin to conscionable the challenge,” said Jolie. “Pablo Larraín is a manager I person agelong admired. To beryllium allowed the accidental to archer much of Maria’s communicative with him, and with a publication by Steven Knight, is simply a dream.”

Added Larraín: “Having the accidental to harvester my 2 astir heavy and idiosyncratic passions, cinema and opera, has been a long-awaited dream. To bash this with Angelina, a supremely brave and funny artist, is simply a fascinating opportunity. A existent gift.”

Jolie is presently successful postproduction connected her 5th movie arsenic a director, Without Blood, the archetypal nether a caller three-year woody she signed with Fremantle. She is repped by WME and attorneys Robert Offer and Lindsey Strasberg astatine Sloane Offer.