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Keira Knightley is in talks to star in a biopic about French novelist Colette.
The film, titled “Colette”, comes from the producing team behind “Carol”. The project will be directed by Wash Westmoreland (“Still Alice”) from a script he penned with the late Richard Glatzer.
Born in 1873 during the Belle Epoque, Colette lived through both World Wars, including the Nazi occupation of Paris; her Jewish husband Maurice Goudeket was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941. Though he was later released thanks to the intervention of the French wife of the German Ambassador, the incident left Colette in constant anxiety the Nazis might return to her door. Her most famous work Gigiwas published in 1944, about a teenage girl groomed to be a courtesan who defies tradition and marries her wealthy lover instead. The book was first turned into a 1949 French film; Vincente Minnelli’s Oscar-sweeping version a decade later starred Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Hermione Gingold and Louis Jourdan. – via Deadline.
