Darren Aronofsky To Direct Rachel Weisz In Jackie Kennedy Biopic

Darren Aronofsky To Direct Rachel Weisz In Jackie Kennedy Biopic

By Peter Sciretta/April 14, 2010 12:26 am EST

Entertainment Weekly are reporting that Darren Aronofsky, director of such movies as Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler and Natalie Portman’s upcoming ballet thriller Black Swan, is actually signed on to direct and produce for his company Protozoa Pictures. Even better, Aronofsky’s wife, the Academy Award-winning Rachel Weisz, is also attached to star as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

The screenplay centers on Jackie O’ perspective on the four days immediately after the assassination and before the burial of her husband, President John F. Kennedy. EW says that the story shows “the beloved Kennedy at both her most vulnerable and her most graceful.” It definitely seems like an interesting concept that sets it apart from previous and likely future Kennedy biopics. And with Aronofsky and Weisz involved, how could you not be interested?