Gillian Anderson has acquired the feature film rights to "Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life" by Caroline Moorehead reports The GA Website.

Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) was an American-born author and journalist who became one of the first female war correspondents. She covered the major international conflicts of her lifetime, from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam to the Cold War.

Her second husband was Ernest Hemingway, but the pressures of working in a male-dominated field led to their bitter divorce. The film will not be a biopic but will focus mostly on the acrimonious marriage between Gellhorn and Hemingway. Anderson will star as Gellhorn.

Playwright Sharman Macdonald, who is the mother of actress Keira Knightley, will write the screenplay.

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