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Coppola Crowned Queen
Oscar winner to direct Marie Antoinette with Kirsten Dunst in the title
role.
Friday, August 13, 2004
By Mark Umbach
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Sofia Coppola is ready to make her follow up to last year's Oscar-winning Lost
in Translation. The filmmaker has signed on to direct Columbia Pictures'
Marie Antoinette. Coppola will also produce with Ross Katz through American
Zoetrope, with Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos and Paul Rassam executive producing.
Production is slated for February in France.
Kirsten Dunst, who starred in Coppola's directorial debut - The Virgin Suicides,
is set to star in the title role, and Jason Schwartzman, Coppola's cousin, will
star as Louis XVI. Coppola also wrote the script for the film, which will be
overseen for Columbia by Matt Tolmach, co-president of production.
Sony will be distributing the film around the world except in France and Japan,
where Sofia Coppola retained the distribution rights.
Coppola, repped by ICM, won an Oscar this year for her script to Lost in
Translation, which she also earned a nomination for directing. She also
wrote and directed The Virgin Suicides for Paramount Classics and wrote
for the television series Platinum.
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