EXCLUSIVE: Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem are in negotiations to play Lucille Ball and Desi Ricardo in Amazon and Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos, the film about the relationship between Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
Having penned the screenplay, Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin will also direct the Amazon Studios’ and Escape Artists’ film.The film is set during one production week of I Love Lucy—Monday table read through Friday audience filming—when Lucy and Desi face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.Escape Artists’ Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch will produce.
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