Roman Polanski and Olivier Assayas join forces on new film

The two plan respectively to direct and script an adaptation of French writer Delphine de Vigan’s novel about a writer and an obsessive fan

Roman Polanski and Olivier Assayas are teaming up to make an adaptation of Based on a True Story, Delphine de Vigan’s novel about a writer struggling to complete a new book after suffering the unwanted attentions of an obsessive fan.

Assayas, writer and director of Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper, will script the film, while Polanski will direct, according to AlloCine. De Vigan, a bestselling author in France, has described the story as one that questions the reader’s relationship with fiction.

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