Lily Collins To Play Audrey Hepburn In Film About Making Of 'breakfast At Tiffany's'

Los Angeles — Lily Collins is fresh for her preservation astatine Tiffany’s.

The character will play Audrey Hepburn successful a caller movie astir nan making of nan 1961 classical “Breakfast astatine Tiffany’s.” The movie is based connected nan Sam Wasson book “Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast astatine Tiffany’s, and nan Dawn of nan Modern Woman,” according to Variety.

Collins will service arsenic a shaper of film, and Alena Smith, nan creator of nan Apple TV bid “Dickinson,” will constitute nan script.

Collins shared connected Instagram that she has “a life of admiration and adoration for Audrey,” and that nan task has been successful improvement for almost 10 years.

“Honored and ecstatic don’t statesman to definitive really I feel,” Collins wrote.

“Breakfast astatine Tiffany’s” is adapted from Truman Capote’s novella by nan aforesaid name. The movie follows socialite Holly Golightly (Hepburn) and her narration pinch Paul Varjak (George Peppard), a writer who moves into her building. The movie was nominated for 5 Academy Awards, including an acting motion for Hepburn.

According to Variety, nan movie will travel nan pre-production of “Breakfast astatine Tiffany’s,” including Capote’s distaste for Hepburn (he wanted Marilyn Monroe to play Golightly). The film’s director, Blake Edwards; costume designer, Edith Head; and Capote will look arsenic characters successful nan film, though their casting has not been announced.

Collins is champion known for starring successful Netflix’s “Emily successful Paris,” arsenic good arsenic films including “The Blind Side,” “Love, Rosie” and “To nan Bone.” Her accumulation company, Case Study Films, will thief nutrient nan movie alongside Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment.