Rooney Mara will be Audrey Hepburn for Luca Guadagnino

We always talk too little about the refinement with which Apple has been selecting the original series and films in recent years. And so, after recruiting Anthony and Joe Russo for Cherry and the great Pablo Larraín for Lisey’s story, it’s time to Luca Guadagnino that, after writing for Sky and HBO a wonderful series like We are who we are, back behind the camera to direct a biopic dedicated to one of Hollywood’s most iconic divas: Audrey Hepburn. The actress, star of memorable films such as Breakfast at Tiffany’s, My Fair Lady, Arianna, Sabrina e Roman holidays and disappeared in 1993 in Switzerland at the age of 63, will be played by Rooney Mara, which many see particularly similar to Audrey because of her slim physique and, above all, for that inimitable doe look that Rooney has had the opportunity to emphasize especially in Carol.

Mara, according to what anticipates theHollywood Reporter, will also be involved as a producer, while Michael Mitnick is already working on the script, who has already had the opportunity to work with Guadagnino in The Staggering Girl, the medium-length film starring Julianne Moore which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019, just before the outbreak of the pandemic. It is still unclear how the film produced by Apple Studios will decide to portray Hepburn, although he will hardly fail to tell about his brilliant career in cinema, as well as the charm that bewitched Hubert de Givenchy and his long commitment to charity.

Audrey Hepburn retired from the scene in the early 1980s, focusing precisely on humanitarian projects closely linked to UNICEF – in 1992 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom – until her death. The film will see Luca Gaudagnino, increasingly successful abroad, at the forefront after having recently concluded the production of the horror-romantic film Bones and All with Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet, yet another proof of the talent of a director who, today, chooses to deal with a sacred monster like Hepburn and with a giant like Apple Studios which, in the meantime, has already won the presence of George Clooney and by Brad Pitt in a thriller directed by Jon Watts about the world of Formula 1.