Angelina Jolie plays Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s new biopic – The Hollywood Reporter

Angelina Jolie will play the soprano Maria Callas in Pablo Larrain’s newly announced biopic.

MariaBased on true stories, will tell the tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest female opera singer, reminisced and re-enacted during her final days in… Paris in the 1970s.

Written by Steven Knight (Spencer, Peaky Blinders, Eastern Promise) features 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 take my responsibility for Maria’s life and legacy very seriously. I will give everything I can to meet the challenge,” said Jolie. “Pablo Larraín is a director I have long admired. To be allowed the opportunity to tell more of Maria’s story to him, and with a script by Steven Knight, was a dream. “

More Larrain, who appeared after his Princess Diana biopic Spencer: “Having the opportunity to combine two of my deepest and most personal passions, cinema and opera, has been a dream I have long awaited. To do this with Angelina, an incredibly brave and inquisitive artist, is a fascinating opportunity. A real gift. “

Angelina Jolie is supported by WME and attorneys Robert Offer and Lindsey Strasberg at Sloane, Offer, Weber and Dern.

More will come.