Jen Lawrence to play Zelda Fitzgerald
Jennifer Lawrence has set her sights on a role as Zelda Fitzgerald, and she is teaming with Ron Howard to bring the life of the jazz age icon to the screen in a drama, currently titled “Zelda”. Howard is developing with an eye to potentially direct.
Inspired by Nancy Milford's bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-finalist biography “Zelda”, the screenplay comes from Emma Frost, and centers on the brilliant and tormented woman who was married to F Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda was her husband's greatest muse, but as a talented novelist herself, she famously struggled to define herself through her own works before falling to her obsessive nature and descending into madness. Zelda was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1930 and spent the rest of her days in and out of the sanitarium, always in a creative tango with her husband, until she died in the Highland Hospital fire of 1943.
The project will reteam Lawrence with “Star Wars: Rogue One” and “Power Rangers” producer Allison Shearmur, who worked with Lawrence on her star-making turn in “The Hunger Games”. Brian Oliver will also produce alongside Lawrence and her producing partner Justine Ciarrocchi.
Zelda Sayre started out as a Southern beauty, became an international wonder, and died by fire in a madhouse. With her husband, F Scott Fitzgerald, she moved in a golden aura of excitement, romance, and promise. The epitome of the Jazz Age, they rode the crest of the era to its collapse and their own.
Source: Collider
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