All sort of Coco Chanel film shenanigans have surfaced. There aren’t that many fashion designers that have the commercial draw for the big biopic film production but Chanel definitely qualifies with three possible film projects in the making. Anne Fontaine has enticed Audrey Tautou to play a young Coco Chanel in a film about her early life before the fame.
Coco Chanel in 1909 // Audrey Tautou
Then we have a film based on the book ‘Coco & Igor’ (recommended if you want to immerse a little in fashion frippery – a light read), about the composer Igor Stravinsky and Coco Chanel’s very brief romance. Directed by William Friedkin (director of The Excorcist) the film will be played by Marina Hands, not someone I’ve heard of before but was apparently very good in Lady Chatterley. I think these pictures show a fair amount of resemblance too.
Coco Chanel // Marina Hands // Igor Stravinsky
Finally, a third screenplay about Chanel is in the process of being written by well-known screenplay writer Daniele Thompson.
All three sound interesting in different ways but I’m mostly pleased that the ‘Demi Moore playing Chanel’ rumours that were going around last year have been quashed.
Hi there,
I forgot to add in my post in TFS that the film featuring Audrey Tautou will be an adaptation of the book ‘L Irreguliere’ by Edmonde Charles-Roux.
I think the Demor Moore rumour has been lying around for a decade, it’s strange people still talk about it now.
if only isabelle huppert was younger.
she would’ve been perfect for the entire role.
If Demi Moore would play Chanel then that would have been truly catastrophic.
Marina Hands is one of the French actresses I’m on the look out for. I was taken away by her performance in Lady Chatterley.