Julianne Moore Reunites With ‘Crazy Stupid Love’s John Requa & Glenn Ficarra In Studiocanal Series Based On Docu ‘The Lost Leonardo:’ Hot Package
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal, The Picture Company, Entertainment 360 & Zaftig Films are out to buyers on a TV series based on the acclaimed 2021 documentary The Lost Leonardo, about how a crumbling painting depicting Christy in the Renaissance called The Salvador Mundi was restored and found to possibly be the final work of Leonardo Da Vinci around the time the master painter did the Mona Lisa.
Juliane Moore will star as Dianne Modestini, an art restorer who saw something special in the painting, and painstakingly restored it.
She and everyone else were surprised to watch it go from a $1000 estate sale item to the priciest painting ever bought, fetching $450 million by the time the auctioneer banged the gavel at the New York auction house Christie’s.
In between the restoration and sale, there were numerous mysterious twists, turns and controversies from the underbelly of the fine art world.
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