The words “Kate Winslet period drama” work like magic, and if you’re a fan of the actress’ period film work, then you’re going to be excited about this news.
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According to Variety, the story for this film will be sourced from a biography written by Lee’s son, Antony Penrose, called The Lives of Lee Miller. Classically handsome, she is discovered by Condé Nast and immortalized by Steichen, Hoyningen-Huene, Horst, and other famous photographers. During World War II, she began a career as a photojournalist, documenting the Blitz and the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps in Germany.
Hers is certainly a life worth filming, and Winslet seems like the right choice to play her, but right now it’s in development. The production has secured exclusive access to the Lee Miller Archives, curated and managed by Penrose, which includes all her photos and diaries.
Hopscotch was behind indie film Adore, which starred Naomi Watts and Robin Wright, and produced Disney’s Saving Mr. Banks. She made a significant contribution to surrealist photography, but her artistic stature is cemented by the portrait work she did in the 1930s, and the often harrowing journalistic work she did in WWII as Vogue’s official war photographer.
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Winslet stars as a glamorous woman who returns home to her country town in Jocelyn Moorhouse’s The Dressmaker, which opens in two weeks, and as Apple marketing whiz Joanna Hoffman in Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs, which opens in January.
