'45 Years' Director Andrew Haigh To Helm Alexander McQueen Biopic

After honors and nominations from the Berlin International Film Festival, BAFTAs, National Board Of Review, European Film Awards, and more Andrew Haigh heads into next month with one more feather in his cap for "45 Years" — the first Oscar nomination for Charlotte Rampling. It has been quiet a journey for the director, and the success he's experienced means more doors are opening.

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Deadline reports that Haigh has signed to direct a biopic about late fashion designer Alexander McQueen. Playwright Chris Urch will be writing and researching the script, that will be partially based on the biography "Blood Beneath The Skin," telling the story of famed and influential designer who survived drug addiction, and rose to the heights of his field, before tragically committing suicide at the age of 40. Here's the book synopsis: 

When forty-year-old...