Kate Winslet has come attached to play Lee Miller in a feature about the acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue who during World War II chronicled such seminal events as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.
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The project is still in development and has no writer or director. Whoever does write the script will base their work on her life and the defining moments of it, as detailed in son Antony Penrose’s biography The Lives Of Lee Miller.
Having gone to Paris with the aim of becoming an apprentice to surrealist artist and photographer Man Ray, Miller became his lover and muse was part of an artistic circle that included Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau.
She died in England in 1977, aged 70.
Penrose has been conserving and promoting his mother’s work since the early 1980s. Even still, enlisting an Oscar-winning actress is a testimony to the rich history surrounding Lee Miller, who first rose to prominence on the catwalk, before carving out a life as a decorated photojournalist. “But I think she made a deliberate decision to bury her career, and this was partly as a result of her war experiences, and partly as a result of her post-traumatic stress”.
Kate Winslet will soon be back on our screens playing Joanna Hoffman, a woman making her way in a male-dominated milieu with Steve Jobs.
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Hopscotch Features’ credits include Anne Fontaine’s Adoration, Stuart Beattie’s I, Frankenstein, Disney’s Saving Mr. Banks and Russell Crowe’s The Water Diviner.
