London: Keira Knightley is set to play Anna Karenina in a big-screen version of the literary classic, stepping into the shoes of Hollywood icon Greta Garbo who had famously played the tragic heroine on screen.
The Pirates of The Caribbean star is on top of the list of actresses being considered for the starring role in the film being directed by Joe Wright, reported Daily Mail online.
Wright, who made Pride And Prejudice and Atonement, featuring two of Knightley's best perfor mances, has talked with his leading lady about the idea of playing the most popular heroine of 19th-century Russian literature.
Tolstoy's tear-jerking classic, about a married woman who becomes a social outcast when she has an affair with an aristocrat, is a dream role for most actresses.
Greta Garbo played her twice, in a silent version called Love in 1926 and in Clarence Brown's 1935 interpretation with Fredric March as her lover Count Vronsky and Basil Rathbone as her seemingly cold-hearted husband Karenin
The Pirates of The Caribbean star is on top of the list of actresses being considered for the starring role in the film being directed by Joe Wright, reported Daily Mail online.
Wright, who made Pride And Prejudice and Atonement, featuring two of Knightley's best perfor mances, has talked with his leading lady about the idea of playing the most popular heroine of 19th-century Russian literature.
Greta Garbo played her twice, in a silent version called Love in 1926 and in Clarence Brown's 1935 interpretation with Fredric March as her lover Count Vronsky and Basil Rathbone as her seemingly cold-hearted husband Karenin
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