Angelina Jolie to Star in Pablo Larraín’s New Movie About Maria Callas

Angelina Jolie will star in Oscar-nominated director Pablo Larraín’s subsequent film, a biopic about well-known opera singer Maria Callas.

Titled “Maria,” the movie “tells the tumultuous, lovely, and tragic story of the lifetime of the world’s biggest opera singer, relived and re-imagined throughout her remaining days in Nineteen Seventies Paris,” in response to its logline. Steven Knight (“Spencer,” “Peaky Blinders,” “Japanese Guarantees”) wrote the script.

Callas was an American-born Greek soprano singer and some of the well-known opera singers of the twentieth century. She was born in Manhattan and obtained her opera coaching in Greece when she was 13 and later moved to Italy for her profession. All through the years, she handled near-sightedness that left her almost blind and a number of scandals in her private {and professional} life. She had an intense rivalry with Italian opera singer Renata Tebaldi, plus an affair with Aristotle Onassis (who later married Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who coincidentally was the topic of Larraín’s movie “Jackie).

“Having the prospect to mix my two most deep and private passions, cinema and opera, has been a long-awaited dream,” Larraín stated. “To do that with Angelina, a supremely courageous and curious artist, is a captivating alternative. A real reward.”

“I take very critically the accountability to Maria’s life and legacy. I’ll give all I can to fulfill the problem. Pablo Larraín is a director I’ve lengthy admired. To be allowed the prospect to inform extra of Maria’s story with him, and with a script by Steven Knight, is a dream,” stated Jolie.

Larraín’s earlier two biopics, final 12 months’s “Spencer” starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana and 2016’s “Jackie” with Natalie Portman as Kennedy Onassis, each garnered finest actress nominations for its two main girls. The acclaimed director additionally obtained an Academy Award nomination for finest overseas language movie for his 2012 Chilean historic drama “No,” the primary nod for the nation.

“Maria” is produced by Juan de Dios Larraín for Fabula Footage, Lorenzo Mieli for The Condo Footage, a Fremantle Firm, and Jonas Dornbach for Komlizen Movie.

Jolie is repped by WME and attorneys Robert Supply and Lindsey Strasberg at Sloane, Supply, Weber and Dern.