Roman Polanski has revealed that he intends to direct a film version of David Ives’s play Venus in Fur, a Broadway and off-Broadway success that received a Tony nomination for Best Play and won one for Nina Arianda as Best Actress.
Roman Polanski will work on the erotic black comedy while awaiting completion of the screenplay for D., based on the historic Dreyfus scandal, which Roman Polanski will direct as well. While Polanski has usually worked in English, Venus in Fur will be filmed in French and will star Emmanuelle Seigner and Louis Garrel.
“I’ve been looking for a chance to make a film in French with Emmanuelle Seigner for a long time,” says Roman Polanski, who previously directed Emmanuelle Seigner in Frantic and Bitter Moon. “Reading Venus in Fur I realised the moment had arrived. I got so fired up to put this brilliant black comedy on film that I decided to fit it in before D., whose screenplay and pre-production will demand a few more months. Louis Garrel and Emmanuelle Seigner will make for a stunning duo.”
The movie will be independently financed and will begin filming in Paris this November. (Source: EW)