The movie will tell the story of Catherine becoming great after she seizes power in Russian Federation in 1762.
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It will be Streisand’s first film behind the camera since the 1996 romantic comedy The Mirror Has Two Faces, in which she also starred alongside Jeff Bridges. The script is by Kristina Lauren Anderson and made the Black List (of promising but unproduced scripts) in 2014.
Streisand has directed three films, one of which was her 1983 film “Yentl”, which won a Golden Globe for Best Director of a Motion Picture in 1984, as well as a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical. She is reportedly attached to a film about the Russian Empress Catherine the Great.
Portrait of Barbra Streisand taken by Annie Liebovitz during Ms. Streisand’s directing ‘The Prince of Tides’. Deadline posted today that Streisand has been coaxed back into the game by the opportunity to direct Catherine the Great, a biopic about the ruler that raised Russian Federation to new highs during her reign in the 18th century.
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Catherine The Great is the fourth feature Barbra will direct and her first in almost 20 years. Gil Netter will produce. Anderson is also working on a Warner Bros and Di Novi adaptation of Invisibility and Studio Canal’s Life and Death in Eden. More impressive still: Yentl was the first major studio film to be directed, produced, written by, and starring a woman.
