Common Footage has tapped famend British filmmaker Andrew Haigh (All of Us Strangers) to write down and direct a Leonardo da Vinci movie based mostly on Walter Isaacson‘s bestselling 2017 biography of the artist, Deadline can verify.
Based mostly on hundreds of pages from Da Vinci’s notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, the biography seems to be to attach his artwork to his science, exhibiting how Leonardo’s genius was based mostly on abilities we are able to enhance in ourselves, similar to passionate curiosity, cautious commentary, and an creativeness so playful that it flirted with fantasy.
An icon of the Italian Renaissance, Da Vinci was not solely a prolific painter but additionally a polymath excelling in numerous fields together with science, engineering, and anatomy. His masterpieces, the “Mona Lisa,” and “The Final Supper” are among the many most recognizable and influential artworks in historical past.
Christopher Hampton wrote a earlier draft of the Da Vinci script. Common’s SVP of Manufacturing Growth Ryan Jones will oversee the undertaking on behalf of the studio.
Haigh is coming off of All of Us Strangers, Searchlight’s queer romantic fantasy starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal, which scored six BAFTA nominations and three on the Unbiased Spirits. Breaking out with 2011’s Weekend, the filmmaker has additionally been behind titles like Lean on Pete and 45 Years, moreover writing, directing and exec producing HBO’s Trying and directing The North Water for BBC and AMC.
The Da Vinci undertaking will probably be Uni’s second adaptation of an Isaacson property. Beforehand, the studio tailored his 2011 biography Steve Jobs, with Danny Boyle directing and Michael Fassbender starring as Apple’s co-founder.
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