British director Chanya Button (Burn Burn Burn) will direct Vita and Virginia from a script by Dame Eileen Atkins that "chronicles the romance and friendship between authors Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West," Deadline reported. Mirror Productions' Evangelo Kioussis is producing alongside Katie Holly of Blinder Films and Simon Baxter, who will serve as executive producer.
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Vanessa Redgrave has joined a cast that includes Annette Bening, Jamie Bell and Julie Walters in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, based on the memoir by British actor Peter Turner, Deadline reported. The project, which has begun production in Liverpool, is directed by Paul McGuigan from a script by Matt Greenhalgh (Control, Nowhere Boy).