Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley is right now in talks to star in Nick Cassavetes’ The Beautiful and The Damned. The film will be a love story between F.Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre. The director has been looking for his Zelda for quite some time now.

Damned revolves around Zelda Sayre and F Scott Fitzgerald who became Jazz Age icons known for living large, soaring high and crashing hard. Although toasts of town in the 1920s, their courtship and marriage was festooned with jealousy and acrimony. Fitzgerald used their relationship as material for his novels. But Sayre was trying to find her artistic identity ended up getting herself checked in a sanitarium

The script will be written by Hanna Weg. The film will be looking at an early April release next year.

Damned will be another period movie in the Keira Knightley repertoire. The actress who stars in the Duchess set in the 18 th century England, and her recent credits include Atonement and Silk. Director Nick Cassavetes is known for his last movie the Notebook which got him good praise.

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