The making of Breakfast At Tiffany’s will come under the spotlight in an upcoming film starring Lily Collins as star Audrey Hepburn. Two years after one Audrey Hepburn film collapsed, along comes another. Producer Scott LaStaiti is developing a new project about the making of the 1961 hit, Breakfast At Tiffany's, with Lily Collins set ... Lily Collins to play Audrey Hepburn in a film about the making of Breakfast At Tiffany’s
The making of Breakfast At Tiffany’s will come under the spotlight in an upcoming film starring Lily Collins as star Audrey Hepburn.
Two years after one Audrey Hepburn film collapsed, along comes another. Producer Scott LaStaiti is developing a new project about the making of the 1961 hit, Breakfast At Tiffany's, with Lily Collins set to play its star, Audrey Hepburn.
It’s based on a book by Sam Wasson, Fifth Avenue, 5AM: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast At Tiffany’s And The Dawn Of The Modern Woman, with the adaptation being handled by screenwriter Alena Smith according to Deadline.
This is another film-about-the-making-of-a-film we’ve heard about in recent months. Director Peter Farrelly is currently working away on I Play Rocky, an account of how Sylvester Stallone went from a Hollywood outsider to Oscar glory with his 1976 boxing movie.
Anthony Ippolito will play Stallone in the drama, which is expected to release in cinemas later this year – perfectly timed to coincide with the original Rocky’s premiere date.
Breakfast At Tiffany’s certainly has an entertaining behind-the-scenes story attached to it. Beginning life as a novella by Truman Capote, it told the story of Manhattan socialite Holly Golightly.
Initially, Capote pressed for Marilyn Monroe to play the part of Golightly, and was vocally angry when Paramount went for Hepburn instead (a number of other actors turned the part down).
John Frankenheimer was then set to direct, but was replaced by Blake Edwards during pre-production when Hepburn insisted that the film needed a higher-profile filmmaker calling the shots.
The reference to Fifth Avenue, 5AM in the title of Wasson’s book refers to the first day of shooting, where the famously busy part of Manhattan was shut down for one of a handful of location shots. Things went awry almost immediately, with Hepburn expressing her dislike of the Danish pastry she was asked to bit into for the shot, while a crewmember was almost electrocuted.
There’s no word on who will direct the film about the film yet, but it should be an entertaining account of a classic romance.
Hepburn’s life and career was previously going to come under focus in a biopic by director Luca Guadagnino and starring Rooney Mara. That project collapsed in 2023, leaving the path clear for Lily Collins.
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“It’s with almost 10 years of development and a lifetime of admiration and adoration for Audrey that I’m finally able share this,” Collins wrote on Instagram in the wake of her casting announcement. “Honored and ecstatic don’t begin to express how I feel…”
More as we get it.
