Shooting has been underway for a while now on Ridley Scott's House Of Gucci – the evidence present in the image of stars Adam Driver and Lady Gaga in fashionable skiing knitwear. He's added another top name to the cast, with Salma Hayek aboard.
Roberto Bentivegna adapted Sara Gay Forden’s book The House Of Gucci: A Sensational Story Of Murder, Madness, Glamour And Greed. The film's story chronicles the 1995 murder of Maurizio Gucci (Driver), the grandson of founder Guccio Gucci, who ran the famed fashion house in the 1980s. Gaga is starring as Maurizio’s ex-wife Patrizia Reggiani, who was caught up in his murder. Reggiani was tried and convicted of orchestrating her ex-husband’s assassination on the steps of his office in Italy in 1995. She gained the nickname the Black Widow during the trial and served 18 years before being released from prison in 2016. Hayek is playing Pina Auriemma, who was a clairvoyant friend of Reggiani.
“So happy to have my good buddy Salma join our wonderful cast," producer Giannina Scott says in a statement picked up by Deadline. "I’ve been talking with her about this Gucci project for 20 years. Now it’s happening and she is a part of it. Rid and I are thrilled."
Scott is on track to have the film out this November.