As his upcoming film, Spencer’s Pablo Larran has cast Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie in the biopic Maria about the life of the Greek soprano Maria Callas, who was born in the United States.
The real story-based movie will recount the turbulent, gorgeous, and terrible events that occurred during the world’s finest opera singer’s last days in 1970s Paris Steven Knight, an Oscar nominee who wrote the script for Larran’s Spencer, wrote the film. Along with Lorenzo Mieli from The Apartment Pictures, a Fremantle Company, and Jonas Dornbach from Komlizen Film, Juan de Dios Larran will produce the film for Fabula Pictures.
“It has been a long-awaited goal of mine to have the opportunity to unite my two most profound and personal hobbies, movies and opera,” stated Larran. “It’s a great opportunity to work with Angelina, a very courageous and inquisitive artist. a genuine present”
“I take my responsibility to uphold Maria’s memory and legacy very seriously. I’ll do all in my power to rise to the occasion, Jolie continued. I have long liked filmmaker Pablo Larran. It’s a dream to have the opportunity to continue Maria’s journey with him and with a script by Steven Knight.”
WME and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern are Jolie’s agents.