Luca Guadagnino To Direct ‘Swan Lake’ Starring Felicity Jones

A decade passed between filmmaker Luca Guadagnino‘s first film, the little-seen crime thriller “The Protagonists,” and his breakout feature, the swooning “I Am Love.” Six more years would elapse until his next feature, “A Bigger Splash,” and the now the director isn’t wasting a moment. Hot on the heels of that picture, Guadagnino knocked out “Call Me By Your Name” which is already earning Oscar buzz, while he’s got the highly anticipated remake of “Suspiria” in the can. Eager to stay busy, he’s got another project in the works, which could be his biggest yet.

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THR reports that Guadagnino has signed up to direct “Swan Lake” with Felicity Jones in the lead role. Universal, Paramount and TriStar are all eager to snap up the rights to the film, which is being described as a tentpole adaptation of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky‘s ballet, that will follow the work closely, instead of using it to spin a different story as Darren Aronofsky did with this thriller “Black Swan.” Kristina Lauren Anderson (“The Alienist“) has penned the script which has sparked so much attention.

No word yet on when this might film, but I’d assume it’ll roll once Guadagnino wraps up his brewing thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Benedict Cumberbatch which will shoot in early 2018.