Margot Robbie to play tragic trapeze artist Lillian Leitzel in biopic Queen Of The Air
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The 26-year-old has been cast as the famed trapeze artist Lillian Leitzel.
The actress will play the tragic circus star in a big screen adaptation of the 2013 book Queen Of The Air.
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Harley Queen: Margot Robbie will play tragic trapeze artist Lillian Leitzel in biopic the Queen Of The Air
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The Australian performed some impressive aerial maneuvers more than once in her most recent outing a Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad, which has obviously caught the eye of casting directors.
The film will tell the story of German-born Leitzel, who was a household name in the 1920s, as famous for her fiery temper as she was for her death-defying acts.
Standing at just 4'9" tall, her signature maneuver was her one arm plange, where she spun over 100 times, requiring her to dislocate her shoulder on every turn
It movie will centre around her tragic and volatile love affair with fellow famed acrobat Alfredo Codona.
Live wire: The film will tell the story of German-born Leitzel, who was a household name in the 1920s, as famous for her fiery temper as she was for her death-defying acts
Tragic: The book covers her rise to fame, her volatile love affair with fellow acrobat Alfredo Codona, and her mid-act death
The handsome Italian American too was world famous, renowned for his triple somersault that had killed many performers before him.
The pair married in 1928 but it was cut short just three years later when Leitzel plunged to her death during a show in Denmark when her rigging snapped.
Six years later the remarried Codona died in California in a murder suicide, shooting his new wife dead in front of her mother before turning the gun on himself.
Lillian Leitzel was the very first inductee elected into the International Circus Hall of Fame in 1958.
There is no director attached yet, but American Sniper's Andrew Lazar is producing.
Swinger: The Australian performed some impressive aerial maneuvers more than once in her most recent outing a Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad, which has obviously caught the eye of casting directors
The script is penned by up and comer Cat Vasko, who has already had a couple of screenplays land on the Blacklist, Queen Of The Air included.
Margot has been very busy this year with Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, The Legend Of Tarzan, and Suicide Squad, with thriller Terminal still to come.
She is also attached to the upcoming story of Winnie The Pooh creator AA Milne, Goodbye Christopher Robin, as well as the 2018-due DreamWorks animated Australian musical, Larrikins.
Doomed: Alfredo Codona (l) pictured with his third wive Vera Bruce, whom he would later shoot dead in a murder suicide
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