Julianne Moore is gearing up for her next big role, working on a series adaptation of the acclaimed 2021 documentary The Lost Leonardo.
Deadline reports Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are currently attached to direct the series. Gillian Weeks created the series and wrote the pilot episode; she’ll also be the showrunner and executive producer.
Per the report, “Moore will star as Dianne Modestini, an art restorer who saw something special in the painting and painstakingly restored it. She and everyone else were surprised to watch it go from a $1,000 estate sale item to the priciest painting ever bought, fetching $450 million by the time the auctioneer banged the gavel at the New York auction house Christie’s in 2017.
The Lost Leonardo is described as follows: “In between the restoration and sale, there were numerous mysterious twists, turns, and controversies from the underbelly of the fine art world. But it all started with the original buyers who engaged Modestini, the wife of a dying legendary art restorer who took on a project that looked like a wreck when she got it. Skeptics said most of the paint visible in the finished product was hers and only a portion by Da Vinci. But Modestini found things under the top layer of paint that gave it gravitas as a masterpiece, like the position of the thumb that was similar to what Da Vinci painted in other works.”
Along with starring in the project, Moore will serve as an executive producer. As yet, there’s no word on a potential air date.
Originally published June 19, 2024. Updated June 20, 2024.
