For so long the rumored biopic of lost aviatrix Amelia Earhart has been talked about. Beginning with a rumor out of the New York Post the talk of the film grew over the past month with regard to the director, but things seemed to be shored up as Hilary Swank will indeed star as Earhart in Amelia with Mira Nair directing from a Ron Bass script.
In the film Swank will play Earhart in the formative stages of her career. George Putnam, a publisher and publicist, was engaged by society denizen Amy Guest to set up a daring nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. When Guest was talked out of trying to become the first woman to make the trip, she dispatched Putnam to find a female pilot, and to turn the flight into a media event.
Bass’ script was delivered just before the WGA strike began. He penned it using Susan Butler’s book “East to the Dawn,” Mary Lovell’s “The Sound of the Wings” and Elgin Long’s “Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved” as his primary resources.
Filming is expected to get underway this April as the cast fills out over the coming months.
