Marjane Satrapi’s Marie Curie Biopic Starring Rosamund Pike Set For 2020 Release

Planned for the first half of 2020, popular indie filmmaker Marjane Satrapi is teaming up with Rosamund Pike to tell the story of the famous Marie Curie. The film, entitled “Radioactive,” will be based on the biographic graphic novel of the same name by Lauren Redniss, focusing on the relationship and love Curie had with her work and her husband.

Satrapi, a French-Iranian artist, made a name for herself first through comic books and her illustrations for children’s literature. Her graphic novel “Persepolis” won the Angoulême Coup de Coeur Award and went on to become a movie along with its sequel. “Persepolis” premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, with Satrapi co-directing and co-writing of course, and won the Special Jury Prize. Satrapi would go on to adapt a few of her other books into film, along with directing original works like 2011’s “The Voices” and 2012 “Gang of the Jotas.”

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In 2017 Studio Canal announced it was teaming up with Satrapi for the Marie Curie project, and not long after Rosamund Pike signed on to pay the lead. Pike gained international fame after she was cast as Bond girl Miranda Frost in “Die Another Day” in 2002 and then later again as Jane Bennet in 2005’s adaption of “Pride and Prejudice.” The British actress then went on to create a number of popular films throughout the years and win awards like the Saturn Award for Best Actress in “Gone Girl,” Best British Actress of the Year by the London Critics Circle for “What We Did On Our Holiday,” and nominated for several others.

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It was only recently announced on Twitter that “Radioactive,” which started production February of last year, is scheduled for release in 2020. The film will also star Sam Riley (“On the Road,” “Maleficent”) as husband Pierre Curie and Anya Taylor-Joy (“Split,” “Glass”) as their daughter Irene.

#FrenchConvention @STUDIOCANAL continue avec un promo-reel inédit de Radioactive, portrait de Marie Curie par Marjane Satrapi avec Rosamund Pike, à dater pour le 1er trimestre 2020.

— Le film français (@lefilmfrancais) January 30, 2019