The glorious but tragic life of renegade and over the top fashion designer Alexander McQueen will be on the big screen, with Jack O'Connell acting as the late British couturier.
English actor O'Connell, known for the critically acclaimed movies such as "Starred Up," "71" and the latest "Money Monster," was chosen to play the part of Alexander McQueen in a biopic, which will give great detail of the life that the designer lived before his untimely demise in 2010, BBC reported.
The untitled film will be based on the 2015 book written by Andrew Wilson titled "McQueen, Blood Beneath The Skin." The movie will be written by playwright Chris Urch, who has penned critically acclaimed full-length play, and will be directed by Andrew Haigh, who is known for his work "45 Years," Yahoo! Movies reported.
The movie will focus on the designer's life in 2009 when he launched one of his greatest shows (also his final one), which featured all his works for the past 15 years that he dedicated to his mother. It was said that it's also the show where he tried to make sense of his life and his art.
McQueen, who has won the most coveted British Fashion Awards' Designer of the Year not only once but four times, is one of the few designers whose provocative designs critics have said have transcended out of fashion and became art.
McQueen took his life in 2010, on the night before his mother's funeral, who succumbed to a life-long illness and whose death he obviously took so hard. He was the head designer of Givenchy from 1996 until 2001 when he finally started his own brand which was celebrated by celebrities such as Lady Gaga, Cate Blanchett, and the Duchess of Cambridge herself.
He died at the age of 40.
