Jared Leto is ready to star in and produce a biopic of Karl Lagerfeld, the enduring dressmaker whose profession spanned greater than 50 years. Lagerfeld, who died in Feb. 2019, is greatest recognized for his highly effective function as inventive director of Chanel.
First reported by WWD, a sister publication to Selection, the venture has already been endorsed by the Karl Lagerfeld vogue home.
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The Oscar-winning actor will play the lead function, in addition to produce the film with Emma Ludbrook via their manufacturing automobile Paradox. The venture remains to be in early levels. A filmmaker just isn’t but hooked up to direct.
Leto instructed WWD that the film will possible discover the designer’s “multitude of relationships.” “Karl had a profession that spanned 50-plus years so each personally and professionally he was near various folks. I can say we’re going to dwelling in on key relationships that convey completely different elements of his life,” Leto stated.
Leto has additionally introduced on board three Lagerfeld’s long-time allies, Pier Paolo Righi, chief govt officer of the Karl Lagerfeld home since 2011; Caroline Lebar, SVP of picture and communications at Karl Lagerfeld, and Sébastien Jondeau, who was his private assistant and bodyguard. All three will govt produce the movie.
“Karl has all the time been an inspiration to me,” Leto stated in an announcement. The actor described Lagerfeld as a “true polymath, an artist, an innovator, a frontrunner and, most significantly, a form man.”
“Once we got here along with the Karl Lagerfeld staff, we instantly shared a artistic imaginative and prescient of doing a respectful ode to Karl whereas pushing the inventive boundaries of what a biopic may be,” Leto continued.
Righi, CEO of the Karl Lagerfeld model, stated that “over time, (they) have been approached by a number of Hollywood producers who prompt to associate on a film about Karl’s iconic life.”
“It has been solely since we met Jared and Emma that we felt really assured concerning the story being instructed within the inventive manner Karl would have cherished to see. All through our conversations, now we have created an equally trustful and galvanizing artistic relationship that may enable us to work collectively very fluidly on this stunning venture,” Righi continued.
The actor, who not too long ago starred as Paolo Gucci in “Home of Gucci,” is repped by WME.
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