Nico was a fashion model, actress, and composer who is best known as the female lead vocalist on the 1967 debut album by famed band The Velvet Underground. Now, a film is in the works about her life with David Mackenzie ("Young Adam", "Asylum") directing and Tilda Swinton starring. Swinton told Suicide Girls "I'm completely committed to playing Nico. We're doing it but I think he [David Mackenzie] has to do something else in between. So don't hold your breath because it'll be a year or so away minimum".
Talking with Teletext a few days later, Mackenzie said of the project "That's a relationship I already have which is very nice, and I'm going to try to get it off the ground when all of us are available. The Nico project is based on a book by a guy that was in the band that she was in in the early 80s, so the book is a great resource in terms of the character and the surroundings".
Before he gets to work on that, he begins filming "Hallum Foe" in October with Jamie Bell, and is also developing both Ruaridh Nicoll's acclaimed novel "White Male Heart" and a western for Universal which he describes as "A story about two fighting gangs of bikers set in the badlands of the American mid-West. There's no cast yet - it's very early on".
Thanks to 'Carrie'.
