Stars in frame for Dusty film
STARS such as Keira Knightley, Nicole Kidman and troubled singer Amy Winehouse are being considered to play Sixties icon Dusty Springfield in a new movie.
The £5million film, likely to be called Dusty, is being developed by husband-and-wife producer team Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen of London-based Number 9 Films. Shooting could start late next year.
Terence Doyle, editor of British film magazine, says: “Playing Dusty would be a dream role and there is sure to be fierce competition to land the part.”
Dusty’s career got off the ground in 1963 and she had a string of hits such as I Only Want To Be With You and You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me.
Voted the Top British Female Artist in 1964, 1965, and 1968, she had a worldwide hit with Son of a Preacher Man.
Her album Dusty In Memphis has been voted one of the greatest 100 pop records of all time.
A movie insider said the film would “almost certainly” explore the “complicated private life” of the gay singer who died from breast cancer in 1999, aged 59.