MUMBAI: UK-based Future Films is set to co-produce a feature biopic on opera diva Maria Callas with Italy-based De Angelis Group (DAP).

Future Films‘ Carola Ash and Albert Martinez Martin are producing under the company‘s 2B Pictures production arm, together with DAP‘s Nicola de Angelis.

Niall Johnson is adapting the screenplay for Callas from a Alfonso Signorini‘s biography of the singer So Proud, So Fragile.

The film will focus on the New York born Callas‘ tempestuous relationship with billionaire shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.

It is the third biographical project in three years for Future Films, following Fifty Dead Men Walking and Goodbye Bafana that was a biographical look at Mandela‘s later years at Robben Island prison.

The cast and director of the film are yet to be announced.