Lily Collins to Play Audrey Hepburn in Making of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S Movie
Lily Collins (Emily In Paris) is set to play Audrey Hepburn in a film on the actress/icon and the making of her 1961 classic Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Collins will produce from her Case Study Films alongside Imagine Entertainment and producer Scott LaStaiti.
Alena Smith (Dickinson) is on board to adapt from a story based on Sam Wasson’s bestselling book Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the Dawn of the Modern Woman, the first ever complete account of the making of the film. With a cast of characters including Truman Capote, Edith Head, director Blake Edwards, and, of course, Hepburn herself, Wasson immerses readers in the America of the late ’50s, when a not-so-virginal girl by the name of Holly Golightly raised eyebrows across the nation, changing fashion, film, and sex, forever.
One of the defining figures of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Hepburn won an Oscar for Roman Holiday and went on to star in additional classics like Sabrina and Funny Face before coming around to Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the romantic comedy directed by Blake Edwards for Paramount, based on Truman Capote’s novella, which cemented her as a global fashion and cultural icon.
Her character, Holly Golightly, is a young New York socialite who becomes interested in a young man new to her apartment building, only for her past to threaten to come between the two. Nominated for five Oscars, with Hepburn competing for Best Actress, the film won two, in Score and Song, and entered the U.S. National Film Registry in 2012.
Collins can be seen starring in Netflix’s hit romantic dramedy Emily in Paris, which returned for its fifth season in December and has been renewed for a sixth.
A Golden Globe and Emmy nominee, who produces that series, she also produced Netflix’s 2022 thriller Windfall, in which she starred opposite Jesse Plemons and Jason Segel, with EP credits on The Summer Book and Mubi’s recent award-winning indie Lurker.
Most recently, Collins joined an Amazon MGM feature adaptation of Polly Pocket, with the actress set to star and produce alongside Mattel and Hello Sunshine.
via: Deadline