Netflix has acquired domestic rights to Angelina Jolie’s “Maria,” a biopic directed by Pablo Larraín about renowned and influential opera singer Maria Callas, the streamer announced on Wednesday.
The film will have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Aug. 29.
The biopic, based on true accounts, will tell the tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of the world’s greatest opera singer, relived and reimagined during her final days in 1970s Paris. The cast also includes Academy Award nominee Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alba Rohrwacher, Pierfrancesco Favino and Valeria Golino.
The script was written by Steven Knight (“Spencer,” “Peaky Blinders,” “Eastern Promises”).