{"id":103988,"date":"2022-10-21T18:01:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T18:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/angelina-jolie-to-play-maria-callas-in-new-biopic-from-pablo-larrain-the-hollywood-reporter\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T18:01:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T18:01:04","slug":"angelina-jolie-to-play-maria-callas-in-new-biopic-from-pablo-larrain-the-hollywood-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/angelina-jolie-to-play-maria-callas-in-new-biopic-from-pablo-larrain-the-hollywood-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelina Jolie to Play Maria Callas in New Biopic from Pablo Larrain \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tJackie<\/em> and Spencer<\/em> director Pablo Larra\u00edn looks set to continue to focus his lens on some of the most famous women in modern history, and has found his next subject in soprano Maria Callas. The Chilean director has also tapped another, equally well-known, figure to play his lead in Angelina Jolie. <\/p>\n

\n\tMaria<\/em>, based on true accounts, will reportedly tell the \u201ctumultuous, beautiful and tragic story\u201d of the life of the one of the world’s greatest opera singers, relived and reimagined during her final days in 1970s Paris. The hugely influential, America-born Greek icon \u2014 once described as \u201cthe Bible of opera\u201d by Leonard Bernstein \u2014 is also linked to another of Larra\u00edn’s films, having famously had a love affair with Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, who later married Jackie Kennedy .<\/p>\n

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\twrite by Peaky Blinders<\/em> creator Steven Knight, who reunites with Larra\u00edn following the director’s previous feature, Spencer, the film is produced by Juan de Dios Larra\u00edn for Fabula Pictures; Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment Pictures, a Fremantle Company; and Jonas Dornbach for Komlizen Film.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI take very seriously the responsibility to Maria’s life and legacy. I will give all I can to meet the challenge,\u201d said Jolie. \u201cPablo Larra\u00edn is a director I have long admired. To be allowed the chance to tell more of Maria’s story with him, and with a script by Steven Knight, is a dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tAdded Larra\u00edn: \u201cHaving the chance to combine my two most deep and personal passions, cinema and opera, has been a long-awaited dream. To do this with Angelina, a supremely brave and curious artist, is a fascinating opportunity. A true gift.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tJolie is currently in postproduction on her fifth movie as a director, Without Blood<\/em>, the first under a new three-year deal she signed with Fremantle. She is repped by WME and attorneys Robert Offer and Lindsey Strasberg at Sloane Offer.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n