Darren Aronofsky and partner Rachel Weisz are set to reunite professionally for an upcoming feature film centering on former first lady Jackie Kennedy.
The film is based on a spec script by Noah Oppenheim and will reportedly follow Kennedy during the four days between her husband infamous assassination and his burial, providing a new perspective to the story in showing the beloved Kennedy “at both her most vulnerable and her most graceful.”
Titled “Jackie,” the project was previously linked to Steven Spielberg and HBO however Aronofsky and Scott Franklin are now putting it together through their Protozoa Pictures shingle with CAA currently shopping it around major studios. The film will potentially be Aronofsky’s first collaboration with Weisz since 2006’s “The Fountain” and will be an interesting turn for the director, marking his first film about on a real life figure. However, if it turns out to be anything like his previous character studies — “The Wrestler” and “Pi” — we should be in for a treat.
Aronofsky is currently putting the finishing touches on his ballerina-thriller “Black Swan” and looks set to follow that up with an adaptation of Ron Rash’s period-thriller “Serena” which has Angelina Jolie attached to star. Weisz, on the other hand, is shooting Jim Sheridan’s “Dream House” with Daniel Craig and Naomi Watts and was rumored to have a role in Sam Mendes’ gestating “Bond 23.”
No word on Aronofsky’s “RoboCop” reboot or a heist thriller he was attached to, but presumably they won’t be (especially the reboot) happening any time soon.
