This is a turn up. A couple of months ago it was announced that Tomas Alfredson, the director of Let the Right One In, would next be filming an adaptation of John Le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. But Variety now tells us that before that he'll be making The Danish Girl, with Nicole Kidman.
Based on a 2000 novel by David Ebershoff, it's the true story of Einar Wegener / Lili Elbe, the first ever person to undergo sex-change surgery in the early 1930s. She died in 1931 from complications during her fifth operation, which was intended to give her a working uterus to make motherhood a possibility. Her saga was a sensation in contemporary newspapers in Germany and Denmark.
Lucinda Coxon (writer of the upcoming Wild Target) is on the script, but Charlize Theron, who was to play Einar's wife, has left the project. Alfredson says he's been negotiating the film for the best part of a year, and that filming will start "soon".
Wegener was apparently a very feminine looking man to begin with, but the idea that Kidman might be playing him / her on both sides of the surgery is an intriguing one...