Andrea Riseborough To Reign as 'The Queen of Fashion' in New Biopic

The Big Picture Andrea Riseborough will personify a British couture iconoclast as The Queen of Fashion. Riseborough will play Isabella Blow in a new biopic that will also star Emilia Clarke and Hayley Atwell. Deadline reports that the film will be shopped at this month's Cannes Film Festival.

The film, which will be written and directed by Alex Marx in his feature debut, will star Riseborough as Blow, a British fashion editor who discovered a number of up-and-coming fashion talents, including hat designer Philip Treacy, model Sophie Dahl, and superstar fashion designer Alexander McQueen. She was famous for her own eccentric fashion style, particularly her fondness for enormous, unusual hats.

Who is Andrea Riseborough? Close British actor Riseborough made her film debut alongside Peter O'Toole in a small role in the 2007 film Venus. The chameleonic actor has appeared in a wide variety of roles across a plethora of genres, including the horror films Mandy and Possessor, the Tom Cruise sci-fi actioner Oblivion, the black comedy The Death of Stalin, and the Best Picture winner Birdman.

The Queen of Fashion will be produced by Matthew Rhodes for The Hideaway Entertainment, Elise Freeman for Mystic Dawn Media star Riseborough for Mother Sucker, Robert Ogden Barnum, and Catrin Lewis Defis. Executive producers include Alison Owen, Jonathan Gray and Ryan Cassells for The Hideaway Entertainment, Thorsten Schumacher and Claire Taylor for Rocket Science, and Jason Tan. It will be lensed by cinematographer Stephen Goldblatt with a score by British musician Laura Mvula.

The Queen of Fashion will be shopped at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival; no release date has yet been set. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.

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