After finally winning an Oscar for her riveting performance in Still Alice, Julianne Moore is lining up her next leading role. According to Variety she's set to headline Can You Ever Forgive Me?, which will be written and directed by Enough Said's Nicole Holofcener. The film is based on Lee Israel's 2008 memoir about the author's turn to forgery after falling on hard time. Here's the book's synopsis:
Before turning to the criminal life, running a one woman forgery scam out of an Upper West Side studio shared with her tortoiseshell cat, and dodging the FBI, Lee Israel enjoyed a celebrated reputation as an author. When her writing career suddenly took a turn for the worse, she conceived of the astonishing literary scheme that fooled even many of the experts. Forging hundreds of letters from such collectible luminaries as Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, and Lillian Hellman — and recreating their autographs with a flourish — Israel sold her “memorabilia” to dealers across the country, producing a collection of pitch-perfect imitations virtually indistinguishable from the voices of their real-life counterparts.
Moore, who was already seen in Seventh Son earlier this year (and would probably like you to forget it), also has The Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 2 coming up, as well as the gay rights drama Freeheld alongside Ellen Page.
