Architects aren’t usually the sort of people you’d think would be the subject of a movie biopic, but Frank Lloyd Wright’s creations hold a strange fix on the American consciousness, and so he’s get the movie treatment.
THR reports that Veteran filmmaker Bruce Beresford will develop and direct Taliesin, about Frank Lloyd Wright, with a script by Nicholas Meyer. The title refers to the architect’s summer home and studio in rural Wisconsin, where the key events in the film take place. The rambling hillside compound, considered a masterpiece of Prairie-style architecture, was the focus of scandal as Frank Lloyd Wright built it for himself and his married mistress, Martha “Mamah” Cheney.
In 1914, while Wright was away, a domestic worker murdered Martha “Mamah” Cheney, her two children and four others by locking them inside and setting fire to the building. So it won’t just be two hours of a man designing buildings, even if Frank did create some of the most lauded constructions in history.
“It’s a very good script,” Bruce Beresford said. “It doesn’t cover his whole life, just a small section of it, and it doesn’t whitewash him into some sort of saint.” Bruce Beresford has recently been scouting locations in and around Chicago.As for the male lead: “We have someone in mind, but I can’t tell you yet,” he says.
General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser
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