I've just read on Deadline Hollywood blog that Paramount have bought the rights to Sam Kashner's and Nancy Schoenberger book Furious Love that is about the love story between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
This picture will produced by Julie Yorn, Gary Foster and Russ Krasnoff of Krasnoff Foster Productions, and Scorsese through his Paramount-based Sikelia banner. This however is said to not be a biopic of these two but instead it focus on the '...torrid and tempestious romance...' (so says Deadline Hollywood)
Also, the producers have at the same time as this got the rights to the Burton estate as well as a cooperation pledge from his widow Sally Hay Burton to make his library available so as to be used as a resource. The producers have reached out to the estate of Elizabeth Taylor so as to hopefully do the same. However the screenwriters for this future film will be hired shortly, but Paramount are only at the moment in the final stages at this point to get this project off the ground and running.
So...we will have to wait and see when this film can get off the ground as Scorsese is already tied up with making a film about Frank Sinatra that he'll direct at Universal Studios.
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