Scarlett Johansson is reportedly set to play Zelda Fitzgerald in upcoming romantic drama The Beautiful and the Dammed, according to The Tracking Board. Fitzgerald has been described as ‘the first American flapper’ and was known for her tempestuous relationship with husband F. Scott Fitzgerald and her 1932 semi-autobiographical novel Save Me the Waltz.
Scarlett Johansson is reportedly set to play Zelda Fitzgerald in The Beautiful and the Dammed.
The Beautiful and the Dammed is being produced by studio Millennium films, who are best known for The Expendables franchise, as well as Olympus Has Fallen. The script has been written by Hanna Weg and producing will be Mark Gil and Beth Bruckner.
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A film based on Weg’s script has been talked about for quite some time and it featured on Hollywood’s Black List, an annual survey of the ‘most liked’ screenplays not yet produced, in both 2007 and 2008.
The project was previously in development with Sandbar Pictures and FarFalla Films with Keira Knightley attached to star as Zelda. Nick Cassavetes and John Curran were also both previously attached to direct.
Zelda Fitzgerald rose to fame during the decadent Jazz Age of the 1920s and she and husband, writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, were hailed as the era’s most iconic couple. Fitzgerald was known for drawing on the couple’s relationship in his work, while Zelda struggled to escape from his shadow.
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In 1932 Zelda published her first and only novel, Save Me the Waltz, a semi-autobiographical account of her life and marriage to Scott. Zelda wrote the entire novel after being admitted to a psychiatric clinic following an episode of hysteria. She died in 1948, aged 47, during a fire at a hospital in North Carolina where she’d been staying on and off for a number of years.
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