Neve Campbell to Bring Brooks Story to Film
Hollywood Reporter
Wed Dec 10, 2:34 AM ET

By Chris Gardner

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Neve Campbell is gearing up for a starring turn as the silent-film star-turned-elusive actress Louise Brooks.

The former "Party of Five" star has bought Peter Nickowitz and Bill Oliver's screenplay "Lulu" as an acting vehicle for herself. Campbell has wanted to do a film about Brooks for many years, and is now looking for a director and financier.

The script tells the life story of Brooks, who was born in 1906 in Kansas. She went on to star in more than two dozen films, most notably "Pandora's Box," "A Girl in Every Port" and "Beggars of Life." Known for her strong-willed ways -- and her trendsetting bobbed hair -- Brooks then moved to Germany, where she starred in several German productions.

It was in Europe that she became a recluse, hiding from the public eye until she was rediscovered in her later years after she was given a typewriter that she used to write a series of essays about her life.

The beginning of Campbell's project finds Brooks in her solitude and then traces the story of her life. Brooks died in 1985.

Campbell next stars in Robert Altman's "The Company," which she produced based on her own original idea. Her other upcoming projects include "Blind Horizon," with Val Kilmer, "Churchill: The Hollywood Years," with Christian Slater, and James Toback's "When Will I Be Loved."

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