Arash Amel's Black List-making script will cover a six month period in 1962 when French leader Charles de Gaulle and Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (Tim Roth) were arguing over Monaco’s standing as a tax haven.The then 33-year-old Grace Kelly (Nicole Kidman), had given up her acting career to marry Rainier and become his wife by this time, politically maneuvered her way behind-the-scenes to save Monaco.
Jacobi will play Count Fernando D'Aillieres, a flamboyant aristocrat and expert on all-things-Monaco who helped turn Kelly from an American movie star to a refined princess.
Robert Lindsay will play Aristotle Onassis the Greek businessman whose girlfriend, opera singer Maria Maria Callas (Paz Vega), was a close confidante of Kelly's. Roger Ashton-Griffiths will play filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock who worked with Kelly on "Dial M For Murder," "Rear Window" and "To Catch a Thief". In this film Hitchcock tries to get her to come out of retirement to star in his new movie. Irish actress Geraldine Somerville will play Prince Rainier's traitorous older sister Princess Antoinette who was exiled after a failed attempted coup. Parker Posey is playing Madge Tivey-Faucon, one of Princess Grace’s ladies-in-waiting. Parker Posey has joined, Milo Ventimiglia would play Grace’s press agent, Rupert Allan. The great Frank Langella plays a priest.
Pierre-Ange Le Pogam is producing the picture.
The project is currently filming in France.
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