Keira's 'The Beautiful and the Damned' Gets a Director

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Keira's 'The Beautiful and the Damned' Gets a Director

Monday, January 5, 2009 at 8:02AM

Though I'd prefer it if she'd spread them out a little more, I have no objection to Keira Knightley buttering her bread by making period dramas. It's what she does best, it's where she looks her best, and her contemporary movies are only so-so.

Keira has another one on the way soon, The Beautiful and the Damned, which is a sort of bio-pic of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre, with writer Hanna Weg covering the couple's incredibly stormy marriage. It's a good time to make a Scott and Zelda movie, with Benjamin Button in theaters and reports that Baz Luhrmann has just purchased the rights to Fitzgerald's best-known story, The Great Gatsby.

And now, The Beautiful and the Damned has a new director, according to Variety . John Curran , most recently of another period drama, The Painted Veil. We say he's a new director on the project because initially, Nick Cassevetes was attached, and I believe I wrote at the time Knightley was announced for the film that it seemed like an odd fit. Curran strikes me as a better choice for the material, although this would clearly be the most high profile gig of his career.

The only real question between now and when the production launches in March is who will play F. Scott Fitzgerald? It can't be some wallflower stepping out of Keira's spotlight, but I can't really come up with anyone off the top of my head that makes a lot of sense.

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James Franco would be perfect. It would be a great opportunity for him to break out from supporting roles and raiset his appeal as a leading man.

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