Best-selling English romance novelist Jackie Collins, known for penning “Hollywood Wives,” “Chances,” and the Lucky Santangelo series, is getting her own documentary. Laura Fairrie (“Spiral”) is directing “Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story,” a biopic doc about the author, screenwriter, producer, and actress, “whose turbulent life sometimes rivaled the spicy plots she dreamed up for her books,” Deadline reports.
The project will be co-financed by AGC Studios, CNN Films, and BBC Arts. Lizzie Gillet (“Searching for Sugar Man”) is among the producers.
Collins penned several screen adaptations of her work, including “Lucky Chances,” “Hollywood Wives,” “Lady Boss,” and “The World Is Full of Married Men.” In 2017 Universal Pictures acquired the rights to the Lucky Santangelo books with plans for a film trilogy. No word on whether that project is still moving forward.
The multi-hyphenate, an OBE, died in 2015 at the age of 77.
“The Battle for Barking,” “Hugh Grant: Taking on the Tabloids,” and docuseries “The Railway: Keeping Britain on Track” and “The 12th” are among Fairrie’s other credits.
“The best advice for documentary filmmaking that I always follow is to keep asking yourself ‘what’s the story?'” Fairrie told Women and Hollywood. “It may seem obvious but when you’re making observational documentaries with real and complex human stories unfolding as you film them, you have to know what the story is at the heart of it and have a sense of what you want to say even though where it’s going is always completely unpredictable.”