"Money Monster" actor Jack O'Connell is set to star in Pathe's upcoming yet still-untitled Alexander McQueen biopic project. "45 Years" director Andrew Haigh is being helmed on it.
According to Deadline, O'Connell will play the legendary fashion designer Alexander McQueen in the still-untitled Alexander McQueen biopic. His character is known for having worked as chief designer at the fashion house Givenchy and for founding his own label with famous clients ranging from Prince Charles to Mikhael Gorbachev to David Bowie.
The untitled Alexander McQueen biopic will show the spectacular rise and fall of McQueen's life as he was born as a working class son of a Scottish taxi driver in Lewisham, London and went on to rise rapidly from an apprentice on London's famous Savile Row. His growing fortune and fame led to an increase in drug dependence and then committed suicide nine days after his mother died of cancer in 2010.
The still-untitled Alexander McQueen biopic explores McQueen's creative process in the months leading up to the show providing an intimate portrait of the man behind the global brand. It was a show that McQueen dedicated to his mother and one in which he tried to make sense of his life and art, Variety reported.
The script of the untitled Alexander Mcqueen biopic is written by the award-winning playwright of "The Rolling Stone" and "Land of Our Fathers" Chris Urch. It is based on the biography "Blood Beneath the Skin" by Andrew Wilson.
O'Connell is one of the UK's hottest young actors at the moment. His credits include Yann Demange's film "'71" and David Mckenzie's film "Starred Up." He is represented by CAA and Conway van Gelder Grant.
The untitled Alexander McQueen biopic will start its principal photography in spring 2017. It is due for delivery at the end of next year. Pathe will distribute in the UK, France, and Switzerland as well as handle sales throughout the rest of the world.
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