New take on Swan Lake

FELICITY JONES ( below) is fronting a new take on Swan Lake, as composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, which has sparked a studio bidding war, with The Hollywood Reporter claiming Universal, Paramount, and TriStar have all put in bids.

The Rogue One star, however, isn’t the only soughtafter talent boosting the project’s profile.

The pitch comes straight from Kristina Lauren Anderson, whose script Catherine the Great reached the top of the 2014 Black List, a compilation of the most buzzed-about screenplays around.

The project also has Bigger Splash director Luca Guadagnino attached, whose latest, Call Me By Your Name, swiftly became a favourite at this year’s Sundance Film

AFestival.

He’s currently working on the remake of Suspiria, starring Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton.

It’s a winning pitch that will get even buzzier if Call Me By Your Name manages to hit big at awards season, with the film already touted as a strong contender for this year’s Academy Awards.

Swan Lake tells the story of Odette, a princess who is turned into a swan due to an evil sorcerer’s curse.

It’ll be interesting to see how much the film version might be influenced by 2011’s Black Swan, which followed a dancer’s increasingly fragmented psyche in the lead up to a performance of the ballet. – The Independent