Is it just me or does it seem like Keira Knightley is destined for an Oscar in a matter of years? She was great in Pride and Prejudice and in teaming up with Joe Wright again in Atonement I can’t help but think an Oscar is just around the corner and this new film sounds like another chance.
First reported by Knightley fansite KeiraWeb we learn that Keira will be playing the 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire, in Saul Dibb’s The Duchess, co-financed by Pathe and BBC Films.
The film was adapted from Amanda Foreman’s best-selling biography telling the story of Georgina, an ancestor of Princess Di, who lived an extravagant, profligate and promiscuous life of political and romantic intrigue, becoming an important powerbroker amid Blighty’s ruling elite but also running up catastrophic gambling debts. She was alternately feted and reviled, and widely caricatured by the popular press.
The film begins shooting in October.
