Baz Luhrmann has been working on his upcoming film about Jovanka Orelanka for decades.
"This is something we've been talking about for 30 years," his wife and creative partner Catherine Martin said Saturday at the LACMA Art+Film Gala, where Luhrmann was honored alongside sculptor Simon Lee.
Teenage Joan of Arc became a heroine after she led the French army to victory against the English at Orleans in 1429, before being burned at the stake in 1431. Warner Bros. confirmed in September that Luhrmann would film the epic story of the French national heroine and saint Joan of Arc.
The film is based on the novel "Blood Red, Sister Rose" from 1974, about Joan of Arc, by Thomas Kennelly, known for the book "Schindler's List".
"I almost made a film about Alexander the Great, and at one point I thought about Napoleon, but more than ever, I realized that I was waiting for the right time to tell this story and that this is the ultimate coming-of-age story of a teenage girl, set in the Hundred Years' War. She is young a girl from a small town who manages to say to this twenty-five-year-old king: 'We will unite the country, and you will be king.' is to create space, raise new voices and new energy and ensure that they are there to break through this petrified world," said Luhrmann, Varajeti reports.
The title role has not yet been cast.
"Like with Elvis, I have my own process. It's the same process where I don't have prejudices and I identify all possible talents, and I work on it. It's a research process. That's what I'm doing right now," explained Lurman.
The story of Joan of Arc has been presented many times in film and television, including Luc Besson's "Messenger" from 1999, in which Mila Jovović plays the main role. including Luc Besson's The Epistle: The Story of Joan of Arc, starring Milla Jovovich.
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