Hilary Swank is set to play aviatrix
Amelia Earhart in "
Amelia," a biopic that will be directed by Mira Nair. Ron Bass wrote the script.
Swank will play Earhart in the formative stages of her career. George Putnam, a publisher and publicist, was engaged by society denizen Amy Guest to set up a daring nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. When Guest was talked out of trying to become the first woman to make the trip, she dispatched Putnam to find a female pilot, and to turn the flight into a media event.