Playwright Anna Zielger will adapt her play “Photograph 51” for the big screen, The Tracking Board reports, and Nicole Kidman, who starred in the 2015 West End production, is attached to star. The screenplay will be Ziegler’s film debut.
“Photograph 51” tells the story of Rosalind Franklin, “an x-ray crystallographer, and her involvement in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA whilst at King’s College London.”
The play received wonderful reviews, with Kidman earning awards for Best Actress from Harper’s Bazaar Women of the Year, Evening Standard Theatre, and WhatsOnStage.
Ziegler’s other plays include “The Last Match,” “Boy,” “A Delicate Ship,” and “BFF.” She is a graduate of Yale and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and has had her plays developed at the Sundance Theatre Lab, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, and The Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Michael Grandage, the play’s director, is set to direct this project as well.
Kidman will soon begin production on Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled,” a remake of the Clint Eastwood western, which will also co-star Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning. She’s also executive producing HBO’s seven-episode series “Big Little Lies,” in which she’ll also star.
