Actress Amy Adams Claims to Relate to Artist Margaret Keane in BIG EYES Movie

Actress Amy Adams will portray real-life artist, Margaret Keane, in the movie "Big Eyes," set for release on Christmas Day by The Weinstein Company.

According to an interview in The Wall Street Journal, Amy claims she can relate to the artist, saying, "As an artist, I've felt my work has been manipulated and then presented as something else, usually not to the betterment of my work."

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Big Eyes is an upcoming 2014 American biographical drama film directed by Tim Burton, starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz. The film, focusing on American artist Margaret Keane (Adams), whose work was fraudulently claimed in the 1950s and 1960s by her then-husband, Walter Keane (Waltz), tells the story of their heated divorce trial wherein Margaret accused Walter of stealing her paintings.

Margaret Keane's work as an artist became phenomenally successful in the 1950s, but she was given no recognition for her work. Her husband, Walter Keane, claimed to be the artist and became a national celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply in hardware stores and gas stations across the United States. Margaret generated the paintings from their basement and Walter's contribution was adding his signature to the bottom. The ruse broke up their marriage, and when she tried to make it known that she authored the paintings, they ended up in a court battle after she found that Walter took the paintings without permission. The case culminated in a dramatic courtroom showdown.