According to etonline.com, veteran stage and screen director Mike Nichols may direct the film, which will be based on the book “Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the Marriage of the Century,” by Sam Kasher and Nancy Schoenberger.
In addition to Zeta-Jones, Academy Award winner Angeline Jolie has also expressed interest in playing Taylor (who played Broadway in The Little Foxes and, in a post-second-divorce reunion with Burton, in Private Lives). Among the names mentioned to play Burton (who won a Tony for Camelot and also appeared in Time Remembered, Hamlet and Equus) are stage veteran and Oscar nominee Clive Owen, Oscar winner Russell Crowe and Colin Farrell.
— Thomas Peter
