HOLLYWOOD - Actress
Kate Winslet is teaming up with her Oscar-winning director husband
Sam Mendes to work on a new movie.
Winslet, who has been married to the
American Beauty filmmaker for three years, has been interested in playing the role of 1920s circus tiger tamer Mabel Stark since 2003.
And now Mendes' company, Neal Street Productions, has bought the rights to adapt a fictionalized life of Stark by author Robert Hough.
The couple's spokeswoman, Sara Keene, says, "It's a great story, they've had their eye on it for a while. If they can get the script right, it would make a great film."
However, the pair will be keen to avoid the same fate as other husband-and-wife projects, like
Guy Ritchie's
Swept Away starring
Madonna, and
Rachel Weisz's role in
The Fountain, directed by fiancé
Darren Aronofsky--both of which were commercial failures.
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