By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Oscar-nominated actor Minnie Driver has joined the forged of Searchlight Picture’s film “Chevalier de Saint-Georges.”
Driver will characteristic alongside Kelvin Harrison Jr, Samara Weaving and Lucy Boynton within the film, which will likely be directed by Stephen Williams from an authentic script by Stefani Robinson, reported Deadline.
The true-life interval drama centres on Joseph Bologne, or the Chevalier de Saint-Georges (Harrison Jr), who is named the Black Mozart.
Born within the Caribbean, Bologne was the illegitimate son of a plantation proprietor and a slave who was then educated in France and have become a fencing grasp, which served as an entree into French excessive society.
With his music and operas, he ascended to the higher echelons of Marie Antoinette’s Paris society till a court docket scandal laid him low.
Driver will play La Guimard, a favorite dancer of Queen Marie Antoinette (Boynton) who took exception to the Chevalier’s rise.
Weaving will likely be starring as Marie-Josephine, a lady who yearns for artistic fulfilment exterior of her empty, loveless marriage and defies her controlling husband to turn into the voice of Bologne’s opera.
The film will likely be produced by Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element Pictures together with Robinson and Dianne McGunigle.
Driver, who was nominated for an Oscar for efficiency in “Good Will Hunting”, presently stars in Amazon’s anthology present “Modern Love”.
She will likely be subsequent seen in “Cinderella”, alongside Camila Cabello, Pierce Brosnan, James Corden and Billy Porter.
