Cate Blanchett is to to star in the graphic memoir
Cancer Vixen: A True Story, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Wrtitten by cartoonist Marisa Acocella Marchetto who is a cartoonist fashionista for Glamour and the New Yorker. Her autobiography "Vixen," which has been generating buzz ahead of its release.
'Vixen' describes how she fell in love with a celebrity restaurateur and was planning their wedding when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and realized that she had let her health insurance lapse. Her friends -- stylists, gossip columnists, designers -- rallied around her as she wore killer shoes to chemo sessions and strove to get married on time.