John Curran is set to direct "
The Beautiful and the Damned," a Film Department period drama that will star Keira Knightley. Pic begins production in March.
Hanna Weg script concerns the turbulent marriage of alcoholic writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his mercurial wife Zelda Sayre, who was schizophrenic. The tempestuous relationship, which unfolded in the high society of the Roaring '20s, inspired some of the novelist's works.