Universal has hired Oscar-winning scribe and Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes to write the adaptation of
Gypsy.
The play and movie is based on the memoir by
Gypsy Rose Lee, a burlesque dancer, and the relationship with her mother, Momma Rose, who has since become the prototype of a "stage mom" in pop culture. It initially hit screens in 1962 with a version that starred Rosalind Russell and Natalie Wood.