Variety is reporting that Academy Award nominee Emma Stone is set to take the lead role in Letters From Rosemary, based on the Black List script.
Stone would star as Rose Marie “Rosemary” Kennedy, who was the first-born daughter to Rose Fitzgerald and Joseph Kennedy Sr. and the older sister of President John F. Kennedy. The script, written by debutant Nick Yarborough, tells the story of Rosemary before and after one of the first pre-frontal lobotomies on her when she was 23 after “displaying behavioural problems that caused her to fall behind the achievements of her siblings due to a mental disability that was long kept secret.” The procedure was not performed correctly however, and left her permanently incapacitated.
Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin and Doug Wald, who won the Best Picture Oscar back in February for Spotlight, are producing.
Stone will next be seen in Damien Chazelle’s Oscar hopeful La La Land alongside Ryan Gosling and in Battle of the Sexes, playing Billie Jean King opposite Steve Carell.
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Originally published March 21, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
