Jessica Biel and Luke Evans are in final negotiations to topline “Vivaldi,” a period romance written by Rain client T.J. Scott & Kevin Lund. Patricia Riggen, who directed and produced Fox Searchlight’s foreign film release “Under the Same Moon,” will helm “Vivaldi.”
“Vivaldi” centers on a forbidden romance that develops between composer, priest and violin virtuoso Antonio Vivaldi and his protege, singer Anna Tessieri Giro, leading him to write his enduring masterpiece “The Four Seasons.”
Giro was Vivaldi’s favorite prima donna and part of his entourage. Vivaldi at the time denied any romantic relationship, and most modern scholars believe that to be true.
The film will be selling at the Festival de Cannes.
