It’s a project that almost sounds too glamorously epic to actually happen: A film telling the larger-than-life love story of famous Hollywood lovers Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, helmed by none other than Martin Scorsese. But as Deadline reports, the pieces are falling into place for Scorsese to direct the tale, based on Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger’s authorized biography Furious Love, which begs the question: what’s Angelina Jolie up to after she shoots that Cleopatra flick?
Jolie and Brad Pitt — this generation’s Taylor & Burton, as many folks have noted — would make a fascinating casting pairing, but it’ll probably take some time to learn who Marty has in mind to play the iconic couple. (Jolie, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Clive Owen, and Russell Crowe were bandied about as possible stars back when Mike Nichols was circling the project.) Besides, a screenwriter has yet to be hired to adapt the tome, which culled from numerous interviews and achingly beautiful love letters sent over the course of many years to tell a complete story of the celebrity romance that transfixed a generation and set the precedent for modern paparazzi culture over four decades ago.
From Deadline’s Nikki Finke:
…the producers have a rights agreement with Burton’s estate, and a pledge of cooperation from his widow, Sally Hay Burton, to make his library available as a resource. The filmmakers have also reached out to the estate of Taylor with the same hopes. A screenwriter will be hired shortly.
I’m told that Paramount made the book deal as other parties pursued the book, with other
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