Keira 'Beautiful and Damned' in Scott and Zelda Bio-Pic

Keira Knightley is fueling up her DeLorean and going back in time again. The Hollywood Reporter says that Keira will play author Zelda Sayre, better known as the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald and a tragic 20th century figure. Nick Cassevetes will direct The Beautiful and the Damned, which will chronicle Scott and Zelda's high flying, hard crashing love affair. Neither one of them lived to see age fifty, and Zelda died in a fire at the sanitarium where she had been living off and on (but mostly on) for a decade. The couple epitomized the Jazz Age and Scott became one of the era's most popular writers, with The Great Gatbsy and Tender is the Night. For all his talents as a writer, it turns out, he was an even more prolific drinker. It would be another in Knightley's growing line of glamorously tragic love stories, joining Atonement and The Duchess as stories without happy endings but fabulous fashions. Overlooked in Knightley's ascendance, however, is the fact that these are actually difficult roles to play, the films are good, and while she could be going down the Cameron Diaz/Kate Hudson path, the 23-year-old has suddenly become in demand for all the right reasons. Cassevetes has not yet picked his Scott Fitzgerald, but he's got a little time; production for The Beautiful and the Damned is not expected to begin until April.

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I can't wait for this to release in cinemas. Gatsby will be out next March as well. Do you have any idea when The Beautiful and the Damned will actually premiere?