Having seen what Jared Leto did with real-life trend member of the family Paolo Gucci in Home Of Gucci, we’re a bit stunned that Karl Lagerfeld’s confidants, who’re shepherding a movie in regards to the designing icon, would go together with Leto to star and produce. But, it is taking place!

Pier Paolo Righi, Caroline Lebar, and Sébastien Jondeau, who all labored carefully with Lagerfeld at totally different instances in his celebrated (and generally controversial) profession, will probably be government producers on the biopic, the strict particulars of which stay a thriller.

“Karl has all the time been an inspiration to me,” says Leto, who will produce the eventual film with associate Emma Ludbrook. “He was a real polymath, an artist, an innovator, a frontrunner and, most significantly, a sort man. After we got here along with the Karl Lagerfeld crew, we instantly shared a artistic imaginative and prescient of doing a respectful ode to Karl whereas pushing the creative boundaries of what a biopic will be. I’m so grateful to Karo, Pier and Seb for permitting us to go on this journey collectively.”

The following job will probably be to discover a filmmaker to deal with the story – marvel if Leto will get in contact with Ridley Scott?

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