Nicole Kidman will star in an adaptation of the Norwegian family drama Hope.
The 53-year-old Australian actress will also executive produce the project, which will turn director Maria Sødahl’s hopeful Oscar into a series.
The Kidman’s Blossom Films banner will work with Amazon Studios, which has a first deal with the studio.
Dramatic role: Nicole Kidman is the protagonist and executive production of a new series with Amazon Studios based on the Norwegian family drama Hope
The series is being described as an emotionally complicated drama about one mixed family.
The film focused on the drama surrounding the 12 family days they spend Christmas together, during which a marriage unfolds.
The original Hope starred Andrea Bræin Hovig and Stellan Skarsgård. It was a critical success, winning the European Cinemas Label award for best film in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival.
She was also nominated for Best Director and Best Actress at the 2020 European Academy Awards.
Family: The series is being described as an emotionally complicated drama about a mixed family. The original film starred Andrea Bræin Hovig and Stellan Skarsgård
Have a ball! News of the project comes at a very busy time for Kidman, who has just broken the silence by accepting the long-awaited role of Lucille Ball
Alice Bell will adapt the program and act as executive producer.
He is currently working with Amazon and Blossom writing and EPing the upcoming series The Expatriates, which is in pre-production. It is fixed will be directed by Lulu Wang and star Kidman.
News of the project comes at a very busy time for Kidman, who has just broken the silence by accepting the long-awaited role of Lucille Ball.
“I love Lucille, having looked at it now and delved into it,” Nicole told Variety, adding that part of her preparation has been to screen the old episodes of I Love Lucy.
The lady herself: earlier this month rumors began to fly that they had been chosen as Lucille Ball alongside Javier Bardem as Desi Arnaz; The image of Lucille
She is an amazing woman. I’m so excited for people to see what Aaron discovered about her and her way of interpreting Desi and Lucy and her way of being so rich. He knew nothing about it, he confessed.
Rumors began to fly earlier this month that they had been chosen as Lucille Ball alongside Javier Bardem as Desi Arnaz.
Aaron Sorkin writes and directs the upcoming biopic Being The Ricardos for Amazon after his streaming success with The Trial Of The Chicago 7 for Netflix.
Desi, who played Lucy’s band leader’s husband Ricky Ricardo, on her show, had a tumultuous marriage to her in real life.
Hunk: While Nicole is said to be Lucy’s choice, Javier Bardem (pictured) is in talks over the role of her husband and co-star Desi Arnaz, Deadline reported
She first filed for divorce in 1944, according to reports from drinking and drinking, but they reunited before finally separating in 1960.
Meanwhile, they produced two children and the sitcom that recorded them in the television legend, which runs from 1951 to 1957.
They also starred together in films throughout their marriage, including Forever, Darling and the comedy The Long, Long Trailer by Vincente Minnelli.
Despite their divorce, in which she described her marriage as a “nightmare”, Lucy and Desi remained publicly friendly for the rest of their lives.
Combined family: Lucy married the Borscht Belt comic Gary Morton in 1961 and stayed with him until his death in 1989; the couple appears with Lucie and Desi Jr. in 1965
Lucy married the Gary Borscht Belt comic in 1961 and remained with him until his death in 1989, while Desi married an Edith Hirsch in 1963.
Edith and Desi died of cancer a year apart; she passed away in 1985 and her husband, who loved the cigars of his native Cuba, succumbed to lung cancer in 1986.
Aaron Sorkin’s new biopic is about a week dedicated to making an episode of I Love Lucy during which Lucy and Desi’s marriage falters.
It is said that the turbulent week, which runs from the table read to the recording in front of a studio audience, also includes a professional landmine for the couple.
Remember when: Aaron Sorkin’s new biopic is about a week dedicated to making an episode of I Love Lucy; Lucille and Desi appear in the iconic sitcom that ran from 1951 to 1957