Variety is reporting that Let The Right One In director Tomas Alfredson has signed on to direct The Danish Girl, which is set to star Nicole Kidman in the lead role. The film is about painter Einar Weneger, who in 1931 became the first person in the world to have a sex-change operation to become a woman. Kidman will play Weneger, although Charlize Theron, who’d been attached to play the artist’s wife, Gerda, is no longer involved with the film.
Alfredson is planning to make the movie before he shoots his previously announced adaptation of John Le Carre’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, working from a script by Lucinda Coxon and based on David Eberhoff’s novel about Weneger.
To be honest, we’re having difficulty seeing Kidman as a convincing man having a sex-change operation to become a woman, but maybe with some prosthetics and a bit of training she can pull it off. It’s also true that with the subtlety and skill Alfredson showed on his much-lauded vampire movie, Let The Right One In, he should be a good choice as a director on the sex-change film.