Mike Nichols to Direct Catherine Zeta-Jones as Elizabeth Taylor on Screen?

Tony Award winner Catherine Zeta-Jones is interested in playing Dame ElizaBeth Taylor in an upcoming film based on Sam Kashner's and Nancy Schoenberger's book 'Furious Love: ElizaBeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century,' Entertainment Tonight reports.  Angelina Jolie is also interested in the role.  Among those interested in the part of Richard Burton are Russell Crowe, Clive Owen, and Colin Farrell. 

Mike Nichols is interested in directing the film.  A producing studio has not yet been announced.

'Furious Love' utilized an interview with Taylor herself, as well as some of her personal photographs, the first draft of her autobiography, and love letters from Burton, Entertainment Tonight reports. 

Catherine Zeta-Jones recently won a Tony Award for her performance as Desirée Armfeldt in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.  Her screen credits include 'Chicago,' for which she won an Academy Award, as well as 'The Mask of Zorro' and 'Ocean's Twelve.'

Mike Nichols has won many Tony Awards for direction; his most recent award was for the musical SPAMALOT.  He has also received a 2003 Kennedy Center Honor.  Nichols has also directed the classic films 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and 'The Graduate.'

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