The Serge Gainsbourg biopic, “Vie Heroique,” will reportedly begin shooting this January in Paris, France. Helming the project is comic-book artist Joann Sfar, who will be making his directorial debut. We reported on the casting for the film back in September, but the trades has been sluggish with news and have just now reacted to the biopic.
The project will document the life of hard-living French music legend, Serge Gainsbourg, who passed away in 1991. Sfar will also be penning the screenplay, but intends to stay away from the traditional biopic, such as last year’s “La Vie En Rose,” which Sfar reportedly hated. It will star Eric Elmosnino in the lead as Gainsbourg and French model Laetitia Casta will play Gainsbourg glamorous lover, Brigitte Bardot. No word yet who will play Gainsbourg famous wife, singer Jane Birkin (pictured).
Universal is distributing and it will be their first, local-language French film. The pic is set for a 2010 release date in France and presumably North America as well.