Cate Blanchett and Aaron Sorkin teaming for a Lucille Ball biopic
Cate Blanchett apparently doesn’t have enough Oscars on her mantle just yet. Although she won one Oscar for her supporting role in Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator and another for her lead role in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine in 2014–and the Oscar talk has continued for her performance in Todd Haynes’ Carol–Blanchett may have just signed up for the role of her career.
The biopic is being written by Oscar winner Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) for Sony’s Escape Artists, and it will chronicle the 20-year marriage between Lucy and Desi, whom she had two children with before they divorced in 1960.
Those two children, Lucy Arnaz Jr. and Desi Arnaz Jr., will be producing the movie with Escape Artists’ Jenna Block, although there’s no director in place as of yet.
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